One of my friends is currently undertaking a unit as part of her Nutrition degree at Curtin which involves a group research project on a topic of her choice. Their group have a keen interest in sports nutrition so saw this as an opportunity to conduct a research project involving athletes.
The topic they have chosen to investigate is ‘Sports drink intake among athletes.’ And have created an online questionnaire as a method of data collection, which will enable them to draw conclusions from the results obtained.
To fulfil the requirements of their project they need to recruit 40-50 people to complete our online questionnaire.

We are contacting your particular club in the hope that you would be able to notify club members of our project and need for participants. The online questionnaire takes approximately 10 minutes to complete and all information remains unidentifiable.
To ensure that you are well informed about the purpose of our research I have included a brief overview of the project below.
In appreciation for your participation in this research we will provide your club with an incentive pack, which will include various sports drinks for you to use.
Thanks
Rach

Project Overview
The aim of this research project is to examine current practices involving the consumption of various sports drinks by young athletes. The project’s main objectives includes the following:
· Determine which sports drinks are regularly consumed by athletes.
· Investigate the timing and quantity of sports drinks consumed by athletes.
· Determine the perceived benefits which athletes experience from their sport drink of choice.
· Establish sources of information available to athletes regarding sports drinks.
This area has previously been neglected in funded research projects.
Data from the completed surveys will be used to fulfill the research objectives stated above. A report will be produced to provide a detailed explanation of the project with a summary of the findings. From these findings we hope to achieve an insight into the most popular sports drinks amongst athletes. This will provide vital information on actual consumption patterns of sports drinks among athletes.

Sports drinks

We’re looking for athletes 18 to 30 years to complete our short 10-15 minute questionnaire online.

From this information we aim to analyse the intake of sports drinks among athletes.

Please follow the link below to the questionnaire before Sept 23rd

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D9WVVS9

(Ethics approval number SPH – 25 – 2011)

If 10 or more members from your club complete the questionnaire we’ll send your club a sports drink pack!