Body Composition and Lifestyles in Athletes With Disabilities

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Conditions studied: Diet Habits, Body Composition, Athlete Assessment, Sport Nutrition

In brief

Disability involves limitations that affect mobility and the ability to perform daily activities and achieve competitive goals. It is expected that disability has a significant impact on body composition, including reductions in lean mass and bone mineral content, and increases in fat mass and its distribution. Additionally, the assessment of food and dietary supplement intake among athletes with disabilities remains poorly described, despite its relevance in both sports and health contexts due to the potential benefits of individualized nutritional strategies. This research project, entitled Anthropometric, Dietary, Exercise, and Supplementation Profile in Athletes with Disabilities (PADES), aims to describe the anthropometric characteristics, physical exercise practices, and food and supplement intake in Spanish athletes with disabilities. The study seeks to address the current lack of standardized anthropometric data and the limited information on dietary and supplementation patterns in this population, which hinders a comprehensive understanding of the physiological, nutritional, and biomechanical aspects essential for their health and athletic performance. A cross-sectional, descriptive-correlational study will be conducted in Spanish athletes with disabilities recruited through the Spanish Federation of Sports for People with Physical Disabilities (FEDDF), the Spanish Federation of Sports for the Blind (FEDC), and the Spanish Federation of Sports for the Deaf (FEDS).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07464899

Run by

University of Alicante

People needed

300

Starts

2024-02-01

Expected to finish

2030-04-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-11

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Acceptation of informed consent
• Have a federation license and at least two years of experience practicing the sport in which they will be classified.
• Follow a training program with a minimum frequency of three days per week.
• Have maintained training continuity for at least one month without absences.
• Any type of disability.

You may not qualify if…

• No attendance to the evaluations
• Reporting less than 80% of assistance to physical activity sessions reported by trainer

Where it is running

• Faculty of Health Sciences. University of Alicante — San Vicent del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain (enrolling)

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