An evaluation of UK athletics’ clean sport programme in preventing doping in junior elite athletes

Hurst, Philip; Ring, Christopher; Kavussanu, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.peh.2019.100155

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“…To date, attempts to reduce substance use through interventions targeted to sports teams have been limited ( Kwan, Bobko, Faulkner, Donnelly, & Cairney, 2014 ). Programs are often targeted for elite athletes and focus on performance enhancing substances ( Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, 2017 , Hurst et al, 2020 ). However, the ‘Cool and Clean’ program has been implemented in Switzerland since 2003 and has seen some success in reducing cannabis use frequency, although no significant results for alcohol and tobacco have been found ( Balthasar, 2017 , Wicki and Kuntsche, 2018 ).…”

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High school sport participation and substance use: A cross-sectional analysis of students from the COMPASS study

Williams

Burns

Battista

et al. 2020

Addictive Behaviors Reports

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Highlights Over half the sample did not participate in any school sports. 32% of youth reported use of one or more substances. Intramurals were negatively associated with cannabis and cigarette use. Varsity sports were associated with lower odds of cigarette use. Varsity sports were associated with increased odds of binge drinking and e-cigarette use.

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High school sport participation and substance use: A cross-sectional analysis of students from the COMPASS study

Williams

Burns

Battista

et al. 2020

Addictive Behaviors Reports

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“…One approach to developing effective anti-doping interventions is to intervene on psychological factors that have been strongly associated with doping likelihood 1 in empirical studies (e.g., Kavussanu & Ring, 2017;Kavussanu et al, 2020;Ntoumanis et al, 2014). However, to date, no study has examined whether an intervention focusing exclusively on such factors is effective in reducing doping likelihood, particularly in the long term.…”

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“…Importantly, none of these interventions manipulated psychological variables that have been associated with doping likelihood or behavior in empirical research (Backhouse et al, 2016;Kavussanu et al, 2020;Ntoumanis et al, 2014).…”

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A Moral Intervention Reduces Doping Likelihood in British and Greek Athletes: Evidence From a Cluster Randomized Control Trial

Kavussanu

Hurst

Yukhymenko–Lescroart³

et al. 2021

Journal of Sport &Amp; Exercise Psychology

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Objectives: The authors aimed to develop a moral intervention and to determine whether it was more effective in preventing doping than an educational (i.e., knowledge-based) intervention; their primary outcome was doping likelihood, and the secondary outcomes were moral identity, moral disengagement, moral atmosphere, and anticipated guilt. Methods: Eligible athletes (N = 303) in the United Kingdom and Greece took part in the study. The authors randomly assigned 33 clubs to either the moral or the educational intervention. They measured outcomes pre- and postintervention and at 3- and 6-month follow-up. Results: Athletes in both interventions in both countries reported lower doping likelihood and moral disengagement and higher guilt from pre- to postintervention. These effects were maintained at the 3- and 6-month follow-ups. There were no effects on moral identity or moral atmosphere. Conclusions: In addition to disseminating information about doping, doping prevention programs should include content that focuses on moral variables.

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“…To date, there has been a dearth of such evaluations (see Backhouse, et al, 2016;Ntoumanis et al, 2014), and those that do exist have largely been conducted on interventions distinct from those employed by NADOs and National Governing Bodies (e.g., Barkoukis et al, 2016;Lucidi et al, 2017). Exceptions to this are a small number of studies that have evaluated existing programmes (e.g., Hurst et al, 2019;Wippert & Fließer, 2016). This means the majority of education programmes are not publicly evaluated, and for those that are their evaluation is not an integral part of their design.…”

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Co-creating a Social Science Research Agenda for Clean Sport: An International Delphi Study

Boardley¹,

Chandler²,

Backhouse³

et al. 2020

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Background: Doping is a significant issue in sport. To date, research efforts to inform doping prevention have lacked any guiding framework for research priorities. To ensure future research endeavors are coordinated, sustainable and focused on end-user priorities, a research agenda, informed by practical needs and expert knowledge, is needed. For the first time, this study brought together an international group of practitioners and academic researchers to co-create a research agenda for doping prevention.Methods: The Delphi consensus method was used to identify the most important topics for social science research on doping prevention, as well as specific questions that need addressing. Based on eligibility criteria for key stakeholders in anti-doping, 82 academics, practitioners and representatives of anti-doping organizations were invited to participate in this agenda-setting project. Based upon two substantive reviews of the doping literature and 12 focus groups with elite athletes across five European countries, a questionnaire was developed by social science experts in anti-doping to assess the importance of 15 potential research topics and identify key research questions for each. In Round 1, an expert panel (n = 57) completed this questionnaire. In Round 2, expert panel members (n = 33; 42% attrition from Round 1) ranked the eight topic areas rated as most important in Round 1 on their relative importance, before doing the same for research questions within each topic area. Based on these rankings, a draft research agenda was created. In the final round, expert-panel members (n = 26; 54% attrition from Round 1) rated the degree to which they accepted this draft agenda and the feasibility of its delivery over the next ten years, as well as identifying possible barriers and facilitators to its implementation.Results: The results of Round 1 and Round 2 were used to create a research agenda consisting of 18 research questions stratified across eight topic areas. This draft agenda was either fully (n = 16) or mostly (n = 9) accepted by the expert panel in Round 3 (96.2%). These research topics focus on the effectiveness of anti-doping interventions/education programmes, athlete environment (developmental influences, role and knowledge of the athlete entourage), long-term development of protective and risk factors for doping in athletes and their entourage, athletes' experiences of key procedures and their perceived place in the anti-doping system. Conclusions: For the first time, a rigorous exercise was conducted to create a research agenda for doping prevention research. Adoption and application of this agenda should lead to better coordination, more efficient use of available funding resource, enhanced uptake of research findings by doping-prevention practitioners and in turn more effective anti-doping and clean-sport education.

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An evaluation of UK athletics’ clean sport programme in preventing doping in junior elite athletes

Cited by 35 publications

References 28 publications

High school sport participation and substance use: A cross-sectional analysis of students from the COMPASS study

High school sport participation and substance use: A cross-sectional analysis of students from the COMPASS study

A Moral Intervention Reduces Doping Likelihood in British and Greek Athletes: Evidence From a Cluster Randomized Control Trial

Co-creating a Social Science Research Agenda for Clean Sport: An International Delphi Study

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