Relationship of Nutrition Knowledge Levels and Food Habits of Water Polo Athletes in Jakarta
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsr.k.200214.047How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- eating habits, nutrition knowledge, water polo athletes
- Abstract
The well nourished food choices depended on the nutritional knowledge’s and nutrition attitudes of people. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of nutrition knowledge, eating habits, and nutritional status of Jakarta’s Water Polo athletes who will participate in 20th National Sports Event (PON XX) in 2020 at Papua Province, Indonesia. The research was conducted in August-September 2018 at Jakarta Province’s Water Polo Training Centre. The sample in this study was all Jakarta Province’s water polo athletes registered in Decree of Jakarta Province’s Indonesian National Sport Committee. The sample was determined by total sampling. Data of nutrition knowledge and eating habits were obtained through direct interviews and distributing questionnaires. Food consumption data was collected using the 24-hour recall method. The result was nutritional knowledge of Jakarta Province’s water polo athletes which in the good category consist of 1 person (3,84%), which in the moderate category consist of 19 person (73,07%) and which in the poor category consist of 6 person (23.07%). Meanwhile, the eating habits of Jakarta Province’s water polo athletes which in a good category consist of 23 person (88.46%), which in the moderate category consist of 3 person (11.53%), and which in the poor category was none. Based on the spearman correlation test between of nutrition knowledge and eating habits variables showed there was no significant relationship between nutrition knowledge’s and eating habits of respondents (p Value = 0.875, r = 0.032). This showed that the better level of respondent’s nutritional knowledge was not necessarily related to good eating habits of respondent.
- Copyright
- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Mansur Jauhari PY - 2020 DA - 2020/02/19 TI - Relationship of Nutrition Knowledge Levels and Food Habits of Water Polo Athletes in Jakarta BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sport Science, Health, and Physical Education (ICSSHPE 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 175 EP - 177 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200214.047 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200214.047 ID - Jauhari2020 ER -