Survey on Awareness, Perception and Attitude towards Doping of University Level Players
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Abstract
The main aim of the study was to check awareness, perception and attitude towards doping of university level football players. For this purpose total 1200 university level players of 18-25 years were randomly selected from all over India. The data were collected with the help of standardised questionnaire developed by Mr. Vipul Vardhaman Goundaje and Dr. S.S. Vidhate. The questionnaire consists of total 55 questions. All these 55 questions were divided into three different parts, they are - awareness towards doping which consist of 18 questions, perception towards doping consist of 17 questions and lastly attitude towards doping which consist of 20 questions. Each question has five responses these are Strongly Disagree (SD), Disagree (D), Unknown (U), Agree (A) and Strongly Agree (SA). Weightage was given from 1-5 respectively. Different weightage given for different dimensions. Percentage was used as a statistical tool to analyse the data. The result of the study revealed that 83.08% university level players of India have bad awareness towards doping, 72.5% university level players of India have well level of perception towards doping and 56 % university level players of India have good attitude towards doping.