According to studies, adolescent students' drug abuse was gradually increasing year by year, and the abuse was also increasing along with their age. However, we couldn't find out any studies concerned the doping control for adolescent athletes in Taiwan. The purpose of this study was to investigate initially the doping control knowledge for adolescent athletes. Subjects were the athletes (middle-school, 13-15 years & high-school, 16-18 years) selected through two-stage sampling procedure: ”Purposive sampling” and ”Stratified sampling” in the National Mid-School Games in 2003. The method was the questionnaire survey. The study implement organized by authors that is Questionnaire of doping control knowledge. The total numbers of questionnaire was 237 and there was 221 in valid. The results showed that more than 70% athletes knew the ”Basic concepts” of doping control knowledge, but there was only 39% athletes knew the ”Deep concepts”. We further analyzed the athletes by within groups, the high-school group had higher significantly knowledge than middle-school group (61.3%>45.0%; p<.01). As to the cross comparison of between groups, we found out that swimming and weight lifting groups had higher significantly knowledge, and the secondary groups are judo and track and field in sequence. We concluded the basic doping control recognition for adolescent athletes had been improved; however, the doping control recognition still need to be developed deeply.
According to studies, adolescent students' drug abuse was gradually increasing year by year, and the abuse was also increasing along with their age. However, we couldn't find out any studies concerned the doping control for adolescent athletes in Taiwan. The purpose of this study was to investigate initially the doping control knowledge for adolescent athletes. Subjects were the athletes (middle-school, 13-15 years & high-school, 16-18 years) selected through two-stage sampling procedure: ”Purposive sampling” and ”Stratified sampling” in the National Mid-School Games in 2003. The method was the questionnaire survey. The study implement organized by authors that is Questionnaire of doping control knowledge. The total numbers of questionnaire was 237 and there was 221 in valid. The results showed that more than 70% athletes knew the ”Basic concepts” of doping control knowledge, but there was only 39% athletes knew the ”Deep concepts”. We further analyzed the athletes by within groups, the high-school group had higher significantly knowledge than middle-school group (61.3%>45.0%; p<.01). As to the cross comparison of between groups, we found out that swimming and weight lifting groups had higher significantly knowledge, and the secondary groups are judo and track and field in sequence. We concluded the basic doping control recognition for adolescent athletes had been improved; however, the doping control recognition still need to be developed deeply.