Brazilian version of the SPORTS SUPPLEMENTS BELIEF SCALE (SSBS)

Those are the data collected from Brazilian athletes to run the confirmatory factor analysis for SSBS.The sample was recruited non-probabilistically, with selection by judgment and snowball sampling, and consisted of 250 athletes, with a mean age of 28.32 ± 7.78 years. Of the total, 68.67% were male; 28.92% were professionals and 71.08% regularly used at least one dietary supplement at the time of data collection. Athletes from various sports were included in the sample, such as track and field, indoor and beach volleyball, military and modern pentathlon, judo, fencing, triathlon, orienteering and soccer, the first two being the most recurrent. Among those who used supplements, 41.80% did so exclusively on the recommendation of a nutritionist, 0.43% on the recommendation of a nutritionist, 24.14% through a combination of professional sources (nutritionist, nutritionist, doctors of other specialties, personal trainer, coach), 12.50% on the recommendation of friends or family, 8.26% on the recommendation of a coach and the rest through other sources.

本数据集采集自巴西运动员，用于开展SSBS的验证性因子分析（confirmatory factor analysis）。样本采用非概率抽样（non-probabilistic sampling）方法招募，通过判断抽样（judgment sampling）与滚雪球抽样（snowball sampling）进行筛选，最终纳入250名运动员，其平均年龄为28.32±7.78岁。其中男性占比68.67%；职业运动员占比28.92%，另有71.08%的受试者在数据采集阶段定期服用至少一种膳食补充剂（dietary supplement）。样本涵盖多项运动项目的运动员，包括田径（track and field）、室内排球（indoor volleyball）、沙滩排球（beach volleyball）、军事五项（military pentathlon）与现代五项（modern pentathlon）、柔道（judo）、击剑（fencing）、铁人三项（triathlon）、定向越野（orienteering）以及足球（soccer）运动员，其中前两项运动的参与人数最多。在服用膳食补充剂的受试者中，41.80%仅依据营养师（nutritionist）的推荐服用补充剂，0.43%依据营养师的推荐服用补充剂，24.14%通过多类专业人士组合渠道获取推荐（包括营养师、营养师、其他专科医生、私人教练（personal trainer）、教练员（coach）），12.50%依据亲友推荐，8.26%依据教练员推荐，剩余受试者通过其他渠道获取推荐。