Evaluating Policy and Informing Practice Relevant to AntiDoping EducationShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: FEPSAC 17th Congress 2024: Abstract Book, 2024, p. 867-868Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Doping represents use of prohibited performance-enhancing substances and methods to improve performance in sport, and anti-doping education is an important aspect of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) doping prevention strategy (WADA, 2021; Woolf, 2020). This symposium includes five studies relevant to anti-doping education. The first evaluates how Anti-Doping Organisations (ADOs) implemented WADA’s International Standard for Education (ISE). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 33 ADO staff from six ADOs. Data analysis identified six overarching themes (e.g., monitoring and evaluation). The second covers development and validation of brief questionnaires assessing risk and protective factors for doping. Informed by a literature review, a Delphi poll was conducted to select constructs for inclusion. Data from 307 athletes and 296 Athlete Support Personnel (ASP) were collected assessing these constructs, and the OASIS package in R used to form brief questionnaires consisting of 24 items for athletes and 28 items for ASP, assessing 11 and 13 different constructs, respectively. The third examines narcissism-related risk and compassion-associated protection for doping. 499 athletes completed psychometric measures assessing narcissism, self-compassion, fears of compassion and risk factors for doping. Data analyses revealed narcissistic vulnerability associated with greater doping risks when grandiosity was low compared to high. Compassion related resistance to doping (i.e., high self-compassion, low fears of compassion) was greater when narcissistic grandiosity co-existed. The fourth evaluates SafeYou, an intervention aiming to improve anti-doping action in competitive athletes. 285 athletes were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. Overall, data analyses revealed no significant impact of the intervention on athletes’ beliefs regarding doping. Significant differences were apparent in Romanian athletes, though. The f ifth is an investigation with athletes who have incurred an anti-doping rule violation. A qualitative case study approach was adopted, identifying, and analysing the crisis response strategies of five elite athletes through journalistic statements and social media posts.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2024. p. 867-868
National Category
Sport and Fitness Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-55362OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-55362DiVA, id: diva2:1933120
Conference
FEPSAC 17th Congress, Performance Under Pressure In Sports, Military/Police, Performing Arts, Medicine, Business And Daily Life, Innsbruck, Austria, 15-19 July, 2024
2025-01-302025-01-302025-10-01Bibliographically approved