Determinação do erro técnico inter-avaliador: avaliação antropométrica em jogadoras de futebol

Introduction: Anthropometric measurements are inevitably associated with measurement errors, being a tool that requires knowledge and experience on the part of the evaluator. Aim: determine the technical inter-rater error between three inexperienced anthropometrists in football players. Materials and Methods: Three inexperienced anthropometrists evaluated 17 college football players with an average age of 22.4 ±3.1 years, each player went through the procedures for measuring body mass, height, nutritional classification status using the body mass index (BMI). The measurement of each fold and circumference occurred non-consecutively, with three measurements being made for each measurement. The players were divided into two groups, being eutrophic and overweight based on the classification of the BMI and the data obtained from the measurements were used to analyze the technical error of measurement (ETM) inter-evaluator. After collection, the data were tabulated and analyzed using the Microsoft Excel 2019® program. Results: Given the results, it was possible to notice the presence of values of the relative ETM% above what was considered acceptable for all evaluators and for different skin fold measurements and circumferences in the normal weight and overweight group. Conclusion: The findings of the present study demonstrate that, in the comparisons between the evaluators, there were differences in the evaluation measures, varying only the number of measures that exceeded the established variation.