Effects of Metabolic Testing Data and Education on Attitudes and Beliefs Related to Carbohydrate Intake in Adolescent Female Athletes

ConditionNutritional Deficiency

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexFemale

Age13-19

SponsorPepsiCo Global R&D

About this trial

Many studies have consistently shown that females across sports under consume carbohydrate. Registered dietitians working with athletes have also reported female athletes chronically under consume carbohydrate. The primary objective of this study is to compare the effectiveness of education versus education plus interpreted individual metabolic (exercise) testing results to change attitudes and beliefs of female athletes regarding carbohydrate intake. The secondary objective is to assess the effectiveness of the education alone on attitudes and beliefs towards consuming carbohydrate in female athletes.

The study hypothesis is that education alone will not significantly impact attitudes and beliefs, and that metabolic testing and the interpretation of the individual results will alter attitudes and beliefs toward carbohydrate intake.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Females aged between the ages of 13-19 years old

Non-smoker

Currently enrolled in an IMG Academy sport

Willing to fast overnight (10 hours) prior to testing (for metabolic testing group).

Disqualifiers

Expulsion from school for any reason

Leaving the IMG sports team

Pregnant or planning to become pregnant

Participated in any other clinical trial in the past 30 day

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

Education
Other intervention
One 45 minute educational session on the role of carbohydrate in exercise
Metabolic Testing (Exercise) with shared interpreted results
Other intervention
One 20-30 minute session. Treadmill, warm-up, then at increasing intensities for 3-minute intervals wearing a mouthpiece for measurement of respiratory gasses (oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production). Testing starts with a 3-minute warm-up at 3.4 mph, 1% grade, increasing every 3 minutes until a respiratory exchange ratio of 1.0 is reached or volitional exhaustion

Treatment groups

60 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Group A: Education plus metabolic testingOther 2 interventions

Group B: Education onlyOther 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

Education versus Education plus metabolic testing

To compare the effectiveness of education alone versus education plus interpreted individual metabolic testing results to change attitudes and beliefs of female athletes regarding carbohydrate intake.

Time frame

Change in Nutrition Attitudes Questionnaire score from Baseline visit to same questionnaire re-taken 2 weeks later. For each questionnaire, a higher score will be correlated to more positive sentiments around carbohydrate intake.

Secondary outcomes

Education alone

Within the education only group

Time frame

Change in Nutrition Attitudes Questionnaire score from Baseline visit to same questionnaire re-taken 2 weeks later. A higher score will be correlated to more positive sentiments around carbohydrate intake.

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PepsiCo Global R&D

Lead sponsor

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