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Doping Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pharmacists in Dessie, Northeast Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Doping includes tampering, possession; trafficking; administration, assisting, encouraging, aiding, conspiring a prohibited substance, and an anti-doping rule violation. Doping in sports is increasing and diversifying involving physiological, mechanical, and pharmacological techniques an...

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Autores principales: Gebregergs Hailu, Haftom, Yirsaw Gobezie, Mengistie, Tuha, Abdu, Mulugeta, Ruth, Ahmed Mohammed, Solomon
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8178700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34104633
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IPRP.S311204
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author Gebregergs Hailu, Haftom
Yirsaw Gobezie, Mengistie
Tuha, Abdu
Mulugeta, Ruth
Ahmed Mohammed, Solomon
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Yirsaw Gobezie, Mengistie
Tuha, Abdu
Mulugeta, Ruth
Ahmed Mohammed, Solomon
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description BACKGROUND: Doping includes tampering, possession; trafficking; administration, assisting, encouraging, aiding, conspiring a prohibited substance, and an anti-doping rule violation. Doping in sports is increasing and diversifying involving physiological, mechanical, and pharmacological techniques and becoming a serious public health problem. Pharmacy professionals have a vital role in the fight against doping. This study assessed the knowledge, attitude, and practice of pharmacists on the use of doping agents by sportsmen and women. METHODS: A community-based cross-sectional descriptive study was done targeting community pharmacists of Dessie city, Northeast Ethiopia. Structured questionnaires were distributed and collected between April and March of 2018. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. Linear regression was used and the level of statistical significance was set at a p-value <0.05. RESULTS: Of the 61 pharmacy professionals who participated in the study, 46 (75.4%) were males and 15 (24.6%) were females. Only 25 (41.0%) and 13 (21.3%) of the respondents said they watch and play sport regularly, respectively. The majority of the participants, 50 (82%), supported the prohibition of performance-enhancing drugs in sport. The majority of the respondents, 55.7%, agree that pharmacists are a potential source of doping agents. Only 27.9% of them mentioned World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) as the source of information about doping agents. Regarding identifying the WADA status of 13 agents, the average score out of 13 was 4.95, while 80.3% of them scored less than or equal to seven. Factors associated with knowledge of participants were being male (β = 4.48, p= 0.02) and regularly watching sport (β = 2.64, p= 0.01). CONCLUSION: Even though the pharmacists’ low knowledge score revealed that they need further specialized training on doping and anti-doping, majority of them support banning doping substances from sport. Pharmacy curriculum developers should consider incorporating specific topics or courses about doping agents.
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spelling pubmed-81787002021-06-07 Doping Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pharmacists in Dessie, Northeast Ethiopia Gebregergs Hailu, Haftom Yirsaw Gobezie, Mengistie Tuha, Abdu Mulugeta, Ruth Ahmed Mohammed, Solomon Integr Pharm Res Pract Original Research BACKGROUND: Doping includes tampering, possession; trafficking; administration, assisting, encouraging, aiding, conspiring a prohibited substance, and an anti-doping rule violation. Doping in sports is increasing and diversifying involving physiological, mechanical, and pharmacological techniques and becoming a serious public health problem. Pharmacy professionals have a vital role in the fight against doping. This study assessed the knowledge, attitude, and practice of pharmacists on the use of doping agents by sportsmen and women. METHODS: A community-based cross-sectional descriptive study was done targeting community pharmacists of Dessie city, Northeast Ethiopia. Structured questionnaires were distributed and collected between April and March of 2018. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. Linear regression was used and the level of statistical significance was set at a p-value <0.05. RESULTS: Of the 61 pharmacy professionals who participated in the study, 46 (75.4%) were males and 15 (24.6%) were females. Only 25 (41.0%) and 13 (21.3%) of the respondents said they watch and play sport regularly, respectively. The majority of the participants, 50 (82%), supported the prohibition of performance-enhancing drugs in sport. The majority of the respondents, 55.7%, agree that pharmacists are a potential source of doping agents. Only 27.9% of them mentioned World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) as the source of information about doping agents. Regarding identifying the WADA status of 13 agents, the average score out of 13 was 4.95, while 80.3% of them scored less than or equal to seven. Factors associated with knowledge of participants were being male (β = 4.48, p= 0.02) and regularly watching sport (β = 2.64, p= 0.01). CONCLUSION: Even though the pharmacists’ low knowledge score revealed that they need further specialized training on doping and anti-doping, majority of them support banning doping substances from sport. Pharmacy curriculum developers should consider incorporating specific topics or courses about doping agents. Dove 2021-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8178700/ /pubmed/34104633 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IPRP.S311204 Text en © 2021 Gebregergs Hailu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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Doping Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pharmacists in Dessie, Northeast Ethiopia
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title_fullStr Doping Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pharmacists in Dessie, Northeast Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Doping Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pharmacists in Dessie, Northeast Ethiopia
title_short Doping Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pharmacists in Dessie, Northeast Ethiopia
title_sort doping knowledge, attitude and practice of pharmacists in dessie, northeast ethiopia
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8178700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34104633
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IPRP.S311204
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