Investigation of food preference and nutritional knowledge levels of wheelchair basketball athletes

This usage is the rate of determining the nutritional preferences of the athletes engaged in Wheelchair Basketball and how high the nutritional information dimension is. Athletes participating in the survey voluntarily participated in the survey. Turkish Physically Disabled Sports Federation Wheelchair Basketball branch consists of 1000 athletes, while the number of athletes doing wheelchair sports is in the Southeastern and Eastern Anatolia regions. It consists of 150 athletes (128 men-22 women) staying in the hospital. Take the Adult Nutrition Knowledge Level Scale (YEDBIN) as the scale of your personal characteristics formula, food preferences and nutritional knowledge used in the research. Percentage and frequency distribution were used as observations from examining the analysis structure of the SPSS 22.0 structure, and the difference in the course of the relationship between the groups was accepted as cells with P-conservation <. 0.05. Among the data showing the development between the athlete and the person (p<0.05), especially according to gender, nationality, daily water consumption, age and weight, It has been determined that there is a pattern in alcohol consumption and that those who do not want to receive nutrition education, dieters and women doing national sports receive information about nutrition types and intake amounts among their food preferences. While being evaluated as a national athlete, statements about how long they have experienced the sport of wheelchair basketball and where they received their education on nutrition and smoking are also taken into account. As a result of the collection comparisons made with the prevention method, no significant and directional orientation was detected in the exit directions. In addition, results and positive results were obtained as a result of the comparison of the preferences made by the athletes in their food and their knowledge levels on nutrition (p<0.05). Solution According to the extension observations made as a result of the survey data made to the players who are engaged in wheelchair basketball, it was determined that their food preferences and nutritional information were at a moderate level.