Performance Nutrition in the digital era – An exploratory study into the use of social media by sports nutritionists

Abstract

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Nutrition Knowledge of Collegiate Athletes in the United States and the Impact of Sports Dietitians on Related Outcomes: A Narrative Review

“…More research is needed on the effect of the sports RD separate from other behaviors to determine best practices to increase their effectiveness. Though these other nutrition support options can help the athletes, a sports RD is needed on staff in order to ensure the training table is meeting each athlete’s needs and nutrition information spread through these other options, such as social media, is adequate and appropriate [ 43 ]. There has been a lack of structure for how a sports dietitian aids their athletes due to the recent creation of the position, but there have been efforts by the professionals in the field to further standardize their practice [ 44 ].…”

Innovative Approaches in Sports Science—Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis as a Tool to Analyze Sports-Related Twitter Communication

“…For both journals, not a single article title included the terms "sentiment analysis" or "opinion mining." Even for the term "social media," only one survey on the use of social media by sports nutritionists in the Journal of Sports Sciences [15] and an editorial explaining the increased use of social media by the European Journal of Sports Sciences [16] were found. A search for the terms "sentiment analysis" or "opinion mining" in the Web of Science Core Collection resulted in 1114 articles, but not a single article resulted when filtering for the Web of Science Category "sport sciences."…”

Social Media Posts' Influence on College Athletes' Protein Knowledge

“…From the research that has been done, it has been found that female athletes are more likely to use social media for nutrition purposes and athletes commonly used social media for practical nutrition purposes related to recipes or information about restaurants (Bourke et al, 2019). Sports nutritionists have been encouraged to embrace social media and to utilize it for interventions to their athletes (Dunne et al, 2019). With the majority of college athletes reporting they interacted with the posts on Instagram and retaining the information, this indicates using social media may be beneficial for sports nutritionists and dietitians to educate their athletes.…”

“…When specifically looking at sports performance nutrition, a research study explored how sports nutritionists utilized social media as a part of their nutrition services and also their experiences and opinions of social media's use in practice (Dunne et al, 2019). This study surveyed sports nutritionists and had voluntary follow-up interviews.…”

“…The content that was provided across each platform were recipes, nutrition information and facts, and nutrition plans. Even though the use of social media was reported as beneficial, digital intervention training and time were reported as challenges to social media use in practice (Dunne et al, 2019).…”