Document Type : Practical
Authors
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Professor, Sports Physiology Department, Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Member of the academic staff of the Department of Sports Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran
10.30473/arsm.2025.70635.3867
Abstract
The purpose this research was Qualitative study the factors affecting the management of the abuse drugs and sports supplements in non-professional athletes. The present research was qualitative. In-depth and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. The statistical population in this research included researchers, experts and experts in sports science, doctors and managers of sports clubs, and general administrations of sports and youth in selected provinces of the country. The samples were selected using the purposeful sampling method and snowball technique and until the theoretical saturation was reached after interviewing 50 people. The data were coded and analyzed. Then, in two stages, primary concepts were produced, and in the first stage, 46 concepts were extracted from the interviews with experts in the field of drug abuse. In the second stage, these concepts are divided into 8 more abstract concepts under audio-visual media, access, material, and financial factors, athletes' attitude, education and research, ethical and cultural, monitoring and suggestion, for greater coherence and better analysis and interpretation. In the next step, 8 theme concepts were classified in the form of 3 themes in the secondary coding process. So that these major categories (themes) were placed at a higher level in terms of abstraction than the concepts of the previous stage. According to the results of the research, officials and planners in sports can take into account the identified structural, background and content factors in their plans to prevent the abuse of drugs and sports supplements by non-professional athletes in the country.
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