Estado nutricional asociado con consumo alimentario y calidad de sueño en deportistas de atletismo pertenecientes a la Federación Deportiva del Azuay 2023

Abstract

Background: Sports practice exhibits a close correlation with food consumption patterns and sleep quality, exerting a persistent and direct influence on athletes' performance. However, it is common to pay attention to these aspects, causing inappropriate feeding and rest programming and wasting the associated intrinsic benefits. Objectives: Determine the association between food consumption and sleep quality with the nutritional status of athletics athletes belonging to the Azuay Sports Federation. Methodology: Cross-sectional analytical study of 73 athletics athletes from FedeAzuay. Data collection was carried out through a frequency of consumption and sleep quality survey and anthropometric evaluation. Data analysis was done with IBM SPSS version 26 and Microsoft Excel 2021. Application of the Chi-square statistical test to associate variables. Results: 74% of the participants had adequate nutritional status, 21.9% were underweight, 2.7% were overweight and 1.4% were obese. No participant met the recommended portions of the food groups analyzed, therefore, the entire sample had inadequate food consumption. 75.34% had sleep problems and 24.68% had no problems. No statistical significance was determined in the relationship between food consumption and nutritional status due to the constant in the result and no association was found between sleep quality and nutritional status. Conclusions: The study shows that there is no relationship between eating habits and sleep quality with nutritional status in the athlete population.