Author(s): Süleyman Karadağ and Mehmet Yıldız

Abstract:
The aim of this study is to examine the nutritional knowledge levels of high school students who do team sports and individual sports in terms of various variables. The research group consisted of 197 high school students who did sports in school teams or club teams (individual and team sports) for at least 1 year in high schools affiliated with the Ministry of National Education in the city center of Ankara in the 2024-2025 academic year. In the data collection process, the personal information form developed by the researcher to obtain demographic information about the participants and the general and athlete nutrition information scale developed by Calella, Lacullo, and Valerio (2017) ^[17] and adapted to Turkish by Altınok and Güvenç (2022) ^[4] were used. In the study designed in the descriptive screening model of quantitative research methods, parametric tests such as T-test and ANOVA analysis were used. According to the research results, a significant difference was found in the general nutrition knowledge levels of students doing both team and individual sports, as well as between the mother's education levels and the father's education levels. Based on these results, it can be said that the students' general nutrition knowledge levels are better than their sports nutrition knowledge levels and that their parents are more knowledgeable than the students in terms of both general and sports nutrition knowledge levels.

DOI: 10.22271/kheljournal.2025.v12.i6f.4116

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