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Volume 8 Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies
ISSN: 2161-0673 Sports Medicine 2018
November 14-15, 2018
November 14-15, 2018 | Edinburgh, Scotland
4th International Conference on
Sports Medicine and Fitness
Dietary supplement usage of athletes in a South Asian regional country; Sri Lanka
Fernando P N J, Rashani, SAN1, Pigera, S 1, Niriella, MA2, Jayawickreme, S1 and de Silva AP1,2
1Sri Lanka Anti-Doping Agency, Sri Lanka
2University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Objective: Identification of dietary habits and dietary supplement usage pattern among Sri Lankan athletes.
Methods: Sri Lankan elite athletes (386) above 18 years old, who belong to 14 sports, were randomly selected for survey study.
Data was collected through self-administered structured questionnaire.
Results: Dietary supplements are being used by 90% of them, mainly including multivitamins (62.5%), protein (47.4%),
creatine (19.0%), rehydration fluids (54.5%) being weight gainers (1.1%) the lowest. Players in all 14 sports showed more than
75% dietary supplement usage while badminton, shooting, wrestling, netball and rugby showed significantly higher usage than
karate which has the lowest usage. Supplement usage pattern was observed within geographical variation where six provinces
showed more than 90% usage compared to all nine. A significant increase in supplement usage was observed in athletes
between 21-35 ages. No significant difference was observed in the supplement usage pattern respect to marital status, gender,
occupation of the athletes or highest level of participation. All the participants take carbohydrate rich diet for lunch and 13%
cereal for breakfast and 4.2% vegetable and meat rich diet for both breakfast and dinner. Among them 10.9% consumes junk
food for dinner. From these players 81.9% using fruits, 54.9% using porridge, 43% using soup and 22.8% using drinks made
from medicinal plants show similar tendency in using dietary supplements (more than 90%). Among vegetarians (3.6%) the
supplement usage is 85.7% which includes 57.1% protein supplements.
Conclusion: While dietary supplement usage is high among Sri Lankan athletes irrespective of sport, dietary habits and social
status, their dietary practice needs a change.
Biography
Punchividanelage Nilu Jayashika Fernando has completed her BSc in Chemistry at University of Sri Jayewardenepura and Postgraduate Diploma in Analytical Chemistry
at the University Of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is a Research Officer at Sri Lanka Anti-Doping Agency. Her research interests include anti-doping science research in the
field of sports.
Fernando P N J et al.,, J Sports Med Dop Stud 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0673-C2-017