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Attitudes towards and knowledge of the Croatian wrestling coaches about supplements and doping

PURPOSE: The aim of this paper is to define attitudes towards and knowledge of the Croatian wrestling coaches about the permitted supplements and doping in wrestling. METHODS: Knowledge and attitudes were investigated by a valid test (17 questions) consistzing of questions about knowledge (11 questions) and questions about attitudes (6 questions). Descriptive statistical parameters: mode, mode frequency, percentage frequency of the correct answers and total percentage of the correct answers were calculated. RESULTS: Results indicate that majority of wrestling coaches did not answer properly on important questions about diet and 57.5% of them did not check prohibited list of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). It is alarming that 17.5% of wrestling coaches would allow any kind of performance enhancers if they knew the doping control would not test them. CONCLUSION: Based on the results of this study it can be concluded that the Croatian wrestling coaches are still not educated enough when it comes to diet issues. Therefore, it is necessary to continuously educate wrestling coaches and wrestlers in diet, supplements and doping. These results could be valuable in prevention, which is known as the best method for fighting against doping.

supplement ; test ; combat sports

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