An important aspect of supporting athlete
performance is having a good nutritional status. Many factors can affect the
nutritional status of athletes, including having good nutritional knowledge,
adequate intake of macro and micro nutrients. One of the macro nutrients found
in low-fat milk, not only supports nutritional status but can be used as an
alternative drink for athletes before training or competition. The goal of this
study is to see if there is a link between nutritional knowledge and athletes
nutritional status, as well as if there is a link between the frequency of low-fat
milk consumption and athletes nutritional health.
This is a non-experimental study employing a
quantitative methodology. The research subjects were 30 futsal athletes at the
Bluemosphere Club, Jombang Regency, aged 19-20 years. The independent variables include nutritional
knowledge and frequency of consumption of low-fat milk. The dependent variable
includes nutritional status. Statistical test analysis used is Spearman rank
correlation.
The findings of the data analysis revealed a
link between nutritional knowledge and nutritional status, the significance
value was 0.011 and the Correlation Coefficient was 0.457 in a positive
direction. There is no relationship between the frequency of consumption of
low-fat milk with nutritional status, the significance value is 0.876 and the
Correlation Coefficient is 0.030 in a
positive direction. Based on the results of the analysis, It was discovered
that there was a link between nutritional awareness and nutritional status, but
that there was no link between the frequency of low-fat milk consumption and
athletes nutritional health.
Keywords: Nutritional status, Nutritional knowledge, Frequency
of consumption of low-fat milk; futsal athletes.