[USE, EFFECTS, AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS FOR THE SPORT IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS].
BACKGROUND
consumption and marketing of supplements that help improve athletic performance has increased in semi-professional sport. Moreover, in the market are increasingly a wide variety of such products pressure and high performance requirements push many young athletes to have recourse to the use of supplements to improve your fitness. However, this type of treatment should be advised and guided by an expert since improper use of such supplements favors the appearance of adverse effects and can be harmful to the health of the individual.


OBJECTIVE
to know the use of supplements to improve athletic performance by college athletes methods: was a systematic review in the Pubmed database, care, BIREME CUIDEN, BIREME (IBECS y Scielo) and CINHAL limited to articles published in the last ten years.


RESULTS
25 articles were analyzed. The main themes were found in the literature reviewed have been three: the "levels of supplements to increase athletic performance in college students", "effect of sports supplements" and "knowledge, behaviors and motivations for sports supplements".


CONCLUSIONS
taking into account that the around 55% of University athletes using supplements but show a lack significant knowledge is necessary to provide a health education on such supplements.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. National Health Services England, Reino Unido.. gacf@ugr.es.
Christian
C
Colls Garrido
Departamento de Enfermería. Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud (Campus de Ceuta). Universidad de Granada, España.. gacf@ugr.es.
José Luis
JL
Gómez-Urquiza
Departamento de Enfermería. Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad de Granada. España.. gacf@ugr.es.
Guillermo Arturo
GA
Cañadas-De la Fuente
Departamento de Enfermería. Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad de Granada. España.. gacf@ugr.es.
Rafael
R
Fernández-Castillo
D056352:Athletes; D054874:Athletic Performance; D019587:Dietary Supplements; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D013177:Sports; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities