Food and Nutrition Education for Adolescent Soccer Players

March 6, 2026 updated by: Maíta Poli de Araújo, Federal University of São Paulo

Food and Nutrition Education for Adolescent Soccer Players: Influence on Eating Habits and Promotion of Women's Health

To identify changes in eating habits and symptoms of premenstrual tension in adolescent athletes before and after a nutritional education program.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

A prospective cohort study aimed at evaluating nutritional knowledge, premenstrual tension symptoms, clinical and anthropometric characteristics in adolescent female soccer players.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

50

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Brazil
      • São Paulo, Brazil, 04023-900
        • Federal University of São Paulo - Gynecology Department

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adolescentes athletes between 15 and 17 years old
  • adolescents in their reproductive phase (menacme)
  • participants in a field soccer sports project

Exclusion Criteria:

  • comorbidities

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: single arm
Nutritional education program
Behavioral: nutritional education
Monthly nutritional education workshops, over five months, covering topics relevant to sports nutrition.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Nutritional Knowledge Questionnaire
Time Frame: immediately after the end of the intervention

The questionnaire called "Nutritional Knowledge Questionnaire," has a maximum score of 53 points, considering 1 point for each correctly answered question and zero points for unanswered or incorrectly answered questions. The questionnaire does not have a minimum score.

The questionnaire consists of 2 parts. The first part consists of multiple-choice questions about nutritional knowledge, and the second part consists of questions about dietary beliefs in sports nutrition.
immediately after the end of the intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Federal University of São Paulo

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Zuszsanna J Di Bella, MD PhD, Federal University of São Paulo

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

February 1, 2025

Primary Completion (Actual)

November 30, 2025

Study Completion (Actual)

November 30, 2025

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 3, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 6, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

March 10, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 10, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 6, 2026

Last Verified

March 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 152842

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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