Download or read book North Carolina High School Coaches' Knowledge of the Female Athlete Triad written by Michael C. Lowery and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A condition unique to female athletes is the Female Athlete Triad, which can present as: (1) low energy availability (EA) or energy deficiency, to clinical eating disorders; (2) subclinical menstrual dysfunction or deficiencies to functional hypothalamic amenorrhea; and (3) low bone mineral density (BMD) or osteopenia to frank osteoporosis (De Souza et al., 2014; Javed et al., 2013; Loucks, Stachenfeld, & DiPietro, 2006; Nattiv et al., 2007). The likelihood of athletes presenting the full Triad simultaneously is only 1-16%, but the percentages of presenting with one (16-60%) or more (3-27%) of the components are considerably greater (De Souza, Koltun, Etter, & Southmayd, 2017; Gibbs, Williams, & De Souza, 2013). Current research regarding high school coaches has found only 2-14% of responding coaches could name all three components of the Female Athlete Triad (Triad) - low energy availability, low bone mineral density, and menstrual dysfunction (Brown et al., 2014; Mukherjee et al., 2016; Pantano, 2017; Troy et al., 2006). At present time, few studies investigating the reasons for this lack of Triad knowledge have been published. My primary objective was to identify Triad knowledge levels in NC high school coaches of female athletes, along with secondary objectives of identifying if Triad knowledge levels were associated with the gender or formal training of the coach. The survey used in this study was the exact same survey used for a previous study of collegiate coaches (Frideres, 2016). The questions were input into an online survey format using Qualtrics software. Participants were recruited via an email which included an anonymous link to the survey. Responses were collected from 137 current North Carolina high school coaches of female athletes, 96 of whom completed every knowledge question - 62 males (65%) and 34 females (35%). Twenty-five percent of the 137 responding coaches correctly identified the three components of the Triad, and of the 96 who completed all questions, the average score was 67% correct. Female coaches (72% correct) scored significantly higher than male coaches (64% correct) on the entire survey (p