Vesic Zoran, Stojicevic Jelena, Rancic Nemanja, Milovanovic Gorica, Rasic Jelena S, Radivojevic Nenad, Prebeg Goran, Atanasov Dragan, Todorovic Milos, Marjanovic Sonja, Vesic Milica Vukasinovic
Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia.
Front Public Health. 2025 Aug 6;13:1625859. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1625859. eCollection 2025.
The aim of this study was to examine the impact of anti-doping education among professional athletes on anti-doping knowledge.
A prospective cohort study was conducted on differences in knowledge toward doping among 404 professional athletes in relation to their education about doping.
Participants who underwent education answered correctly significantly more often on most of the questions compared to participants without education [difference of about 20-30% in the rate of correct answers is in favor of participants with education on every question; 8.49 (SD 2.75) vs. 11.04 (SD 1.89); < 0.001]. The majority of participants in the group with prior education against doping answered 10 or more questions correctly out of a total of 13, while the group without prior education against doping most commonly had 7 to 11 correct answers ( < 0.001). The most significant predictors of correct answers are gender, number of years of training, type of sport (individual or team sport), and prior education about doping. The largest contribution to this model comes from the variable "prior education against doping," followed by the type of sport.
Our research shows that prior anti-doping education is effective and has the essential contribution on athletes' knowledge about doping.
本研究旨在探讨职业运动员中的反兴奋剂教育对反兴奋剂知识的影响。
对404名职业运动员进行前瞻性队列研究，以了解他们在接受兴奋剂教育前后对兴奋剂知识的差异。
与未接受教育的参与者相比，接受教育的参与者在大多数问题上回答正确的频率显著更高[每个问题的正确答案率相差约20%-30%，有利于接受教育的参与者；8.49（标准差2.75）对11.04（标准差1.89）；<0.001]。在总共13个问题中，大多数接受过反兴奋剂教育的参与者正确回答了10个或更多问题，而未接受过反兴奋剂教育的参与者最常见的正确答案数量为7至11个（<0.001）。正确答案的最显著预测因素是性别、训练年限、运动类型（个人或团体运动）以及之前的反兴奋剂教育。该模型中最大的贡献来自“之前的反兴奋剂教育”变量，其次是运动类型。
我们的研究表明，先前的反兴奋剂教育是有效的，并且对运动员的兴奋剂知识有重要贡献。
