Survey of the frequency percentage of doping drugs among the male-body building athletes and rate of knowledge to side-effects

ABSTRACT

Increasing the body building sport in young people, using various drugs to enhance the body efficiency is beeing increased. However, they play the temporary roles in body-building, but they cause the irreparable poisionings and bad effects on them 337 body-building athletes from among 70 clubs in Semnan province were chosen randomly and they were given a questionnaire, containing the demographic questions, in which the rate of using drugs and their knowledge about the side-effects of these drugs had been considered, was filled out via interview. To analyse the data, chi-square and ratio tests were used 27.3% of samples used the doping drugs [95% CI 22.5%- 32.1%]. The most common drugs were food supplements [20.8%], anabolic steroide [14.2%] and vitamins [7.1%]. The people who used doping drugs were at the ages of 20 [35.4%], 20-25 [26.1%] and higher than 20 [21.1%]. 31.7% of cases were with under highschool diploma.Using these drugs were more than those who had diploma degree or higher [23.3%]; and showing a significant relationship [P=0.0418]. Also, the percentage of using the doping drugs among the cases under 20 [35.4%] was significantly [P=0.0294] higher than cases with more than 20 year-old [24.7%]. Among the athletes, only 4.7% of them had knowledge about the side-effects of doping drugs, and there was a significant relationship between the knowledge of bad effects and level of educations [P<0.004]. Increasing the consumption of doping drugs, using in lower ages and having less knowledge about the side-effects among users, showing that the physical education instructors and the athletes are trained and regarding to kinds of drugs and variation among them, educational structure is changed to prevent the next problems