Adherence to The Mediterranean Diet Among Adolescent Female Volleyball Players And Non-Athlete Controls

Year 2021, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 27 - 40, 30.08.2021

Neşe Toktaş Cemile Balci Mustafa Veziroğlu

Abstract

Background: The Mediterranean diet (MD) is considered one of the healthiest eating patterns in the world. MD
can be an alternative dietary pattern for adolescent athletes to achieve their performance goals since it contains
nutrients rich in carbohydrates, which are important for improving athletic performance and recovery, and contains
antioxidant nutrients that reduce the harmful effects of training.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the adherence to MD in adolescent female volleyball players and
non-athlete controls and their nutritional status.
Material and Methods: A total of 70 female adolescents in the 12-14 age group, 35 volleyball players and 35 nonathlete controls, participated in the study. Adherence to MD was assessed by the Mediterranean Diet Quality Index
in Children and Adolescents (KIDMED) questionnaire, and a two-day food consumption record was used to obtain
information about the nutritional status. In the comparison of differences between two groups, the independent
samples t-test was used for normally distributed data, and the Mann-Whitney U test was used for non-normally
distributed data.
Results: There was no difference between the KIDMED index scores of the adolescent volleyball players and the
group of non-athlete controls (p>0.05). The adherence to MD of a large part of both groups is average. In other
words, the improvement of the dietary pattern is needed. When energy, macronutrient and micronutrient intakes
were assessed, only protein and zinc intakes were different between the groups (p<0.05). The protein and zinc
intake levels of the control group were higher than the athlete group.
Conclusions: Dietary patterns of adolescents should be improved for growth and development, healthy life,
protection against some diseases in the future, and sportive performance.

Keywords

KIDMED, Adolescent Athletes, Sedentary

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