Wednesday, December 02, 2020

Anti-doping education: Teaching athletes about morality in sport can help reduce doping


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/uob-aet120120.php

 

News Release 2-Dec-2020
University of Birmingham

 

Elite athletes can be persuaded not to take banned substances - either by appealing to their sense of morality or educating them about the risks of using performance-enhancing drugs, according to a new study.

Researchers developed two separate intervention programmes - one targeting moral factors associated with doping likelihood, the other introducing doping and providing information about the health consequences of banned substances and the risks of sport supplements.

They tested both programmes on young elite athletes from the UK and Greece, finding that both approaches were equally effective at deterring the sportspeople from taking banned substances over a six-month period.


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