THE AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE OF SPORT COACHES TOWARDS NUTRITIONAL BENEFIT FOR PERFORMANCE THE CASE OF YOUTH SPORT PROJECT IN HARAR CITY, ETHIOPIA

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the awareness and attitudes of project coaches towards nutritional benefit for performance in reference of Harar city youth project coaches, Harari regional state, Ethiopia. There were120 youth sport project coaches in 11 sport types which is found in Harar city. Out of this population, half or 60 coaches (40 male from 93 and 20 from 27 female) were selected as sample by using random sampling. From 11 sport type youth project. For this study descriptive survey method was employed, relevant data were collected through questionnaire and interview. Then the collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics SPSS version 20, frequency and percentage. The mean age of the participants of these study were34.40 ±3.679.And other data was analyzed by percent and frequency. On this study the results shows that most of Harari region youth sport project coaches have hugely gap of knowledge and low awareness how nutrition affects sport performance and their attitudes were very little about nutrients and its importance. Based on this the researcher recommends that Harari region sport commission and concerned body should work jointly to improve awareness of the coaches ‘and coaches should motivate them to read books that written concerning nutrition and sport to change their attitude towards sport nutrition, nutrients and its advantages for sport performance, and nutritional education is needed for the coaches which was involved in youth sport project.