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The effects of a nutritional intervention on the sports nutrition knowledge and nutritional status of track and field athletes: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
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- Changes of body composition through an athlete-specific dietary guidance professional track and field athletes: a randomized controlled study.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2026Trial
- Improvement of sports nutrition knowledge by a dual method education program in track and field athletes: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2025Trial
- Design-Driven Gel-Based Delivery Systems for Bioactives in Sports Nutrition.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Improvements in competition performance of national-level track and field athletes following a personalized nutrition intervention: a mixed methods approach.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Navigating sports nutrition: athlete and coach experiences from a 16-week personalized intervention.Nutrition & metabolism · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundSports nutrition plays a crucial role in providing the fuel to meet the energy demands of athletes' training programmes, enhancing adaptations associated with training, and ensuring rapid recovery between workouts. However, evidence suggests that the dietary habits of many athletes are unsatisfactory when compared to sport-specific nutrition recommendations. This discrepancy is mainly due to a lack of up-to-date, evidence-based nutritional knowledge. Hence, this parallel-group, randomized controlled clinical trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a 16-week evidence-based, culturally appropriate, personalized sports nutrition intervention on the sports nutrition knowledge and nutritional status of track and field athletes in Sri Lanka, in comparison to a control group that does not receive this intervention.
methodsElite and highly trained track and field athletes, competing at the national level and/or representing Sri Lanka in international competitions, will be randomly allocated to either the intervention group (IG) (n = 15) or the control group (CG) (n = 15). Participants in the IG will receive an evidence-based, culturally acceptable, personalized sports nutrition intervention from the principal investigator through one-to-one consultations at three-time points (zeroth, fourth, and eighth weeks), while participants in the CG will be followed up throughout the period without receiving the intervention. The primary outcome measure is the number of participants who achieve at least a 10% increase in mean sports nutrition knowledge (SNK) score at the end of the 16 DISCUSSION: While the primary objective is to enhance SNK, it is anticipated that improvements in nutritional status and overall health may significantly impact sports performance and career longevity of the athletes.
trial registrationSri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry, SLCTR/2024/013. Registered on 10
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