Doping in Turkey, assessment of knowledge level of players about doping (handball study case)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discuss doping in Turkey and to assess the knowledge level of handball players in Turkey. Sample in this study is composed of 148 players who have been selected randomly among 336 players from 24 teams (12 men - 12 women) that were competing in the season 2007-2008.

A questionaire prepared by expert opinion is employed as the data collection method. First the questionaire is applied to a group of 40 handball players, then the questions are revised according to the answers given by this specific group of players and validity-reliability tests are conducted. Reliability test is performed by using Cronbach Alpha internal consistency technique and the coefficient is obtained as 0.82.

In this study, literature survey has been conducted to examine the historical progress of doping which has been verified with numerical data. According to the results of percentage (%) and frequency (f), t-test and ANOVA, 50.7% (N=75) of the contributors is “male” whereas the remaining 49.3% (N=73) of the contributors is “female”.

As a conclusion of this study, it can be stated that the knowledge level of handball players about doping is limited and the knowledge level of men seems to be higher than the knowledge level of women. It is also revealed that some players have been using doping.