Title:	Intermediate-level diet quality of Brazilian paralympic athletes based on national and international indexes
Authors:	Schneider, Willian Vagner Dorneles Sasaki, Carolina Amâncio Louly Costa, Teresa Helena Macedo da
metadata.dc.identifier.orcid:	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3950-0606 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2309-4869 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-5058
metadata.dc.contributor.affiliation:	University of Brasilia, Department of Nutrition, Graduate Program in Human Nutrition University of Brasilia, Department of Nutrition, Graduate Program in Human Nutrition University of Brasilia, Department of Nutrition, Graduate Program in Human Nutrition
Assunto::	Paratletas Dietas - avaliação Dietas - qualidade
Issue Date:	17-Jul-2023
Publisher:	MDPI
Citation:	SCHNEIDER, Willian V. D.; SASAKI, Carolina A. L.; COSTA, Teresa H. M. da. Intermediate-level diet quality of Brazilian paralympic athletes based on national and international indexes. Nutrients, [S. l. ], v. 15, n. 14, 3163, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15143163. Disponível em: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/14/3163. Acesso em: 28 jul. 2024.
Abstract:	Diet quality indexes are used to characterize the dietary patterns of individuals and pop ulations. The objective of this study was to compare two specific diet quality indexes, namely the Brazilian Healthy Eating Index Revised (BHEI-R) and the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS), among Brazilian parathletes. This comparison was performed using either the initial 24 h recall (Rec1) or an assessment of usual dietary intake. Additionally, our study aimed to explore the association of these indexes with sociodemographic and behavioral sport variables. This cross sectional, observational study evaluated 101 disabled athletes, including 23 international-level and 78 regional-/national-level participants, with a distribution of 82 males and 19 females across 13 Paralympic modalities. The Multiple Source Method (MSM) was employed, utilizing data from two or four non-consecutive 24 h food recalls. The comparison between the Rec1 and the assess ment of usual dietary intake revealed the following median (IQR) values: for the BHEI-R, they were 60.3 ± 11.1 and 80.7 ± 6.2, respectively; for the GDQS, they were 19.5 ± 6.5 and 18.3 ± 2.6, respectively. Most athletes had diets classified as either “in need of modification” (according to BHEI-R) or of “moderate risk” (according to GDQS). The comparison between type of sport (team/individual), age, sex, income, education, sport scholarship, and nutritional support between the diet quality indexes is presented. Athletes involved in individual sports exhibited higher scores than team sports for BHEI-R (p < 0.02), and athletes receiving nutritional support achieved higher scores on both indexes (p < 0.03). The analysis of diet quality using the initial Rec1 with the BHEI-R was deemed sufficient to evaluate the diet quality of these athletes. However, when evaluating sporadically consumed food groups, the adoption of GDQS is necessary to assess usual dietary intake. We found that both BHEI-R and GDQS can be utilized to evaluate the diet quality of athletes with disabilities, and the diet quality of parathletes reached an intermediate score level.
metadata.dc.description.unidade:	Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde (FS) Departamento de Nutrição (FS NUT)
metadata.dc.description.ppg:	Programa de Pós-Graduação em Nutrição Humana
Licença::	© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/)
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15143163
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