Nigerian athletes’ perspective: Urine doping controls

Olufemi Adegbola Adegbesan; Victor Ben Olowoleni; Titilola Stella Akingbola; John Oluwasogo Ayorinde; Ade Fatai Adeniyi

doi:10.53730/ijhs.v7nS1.14506

Authors

Olufemi Adegbola Adegbesan Department of Human Kinetics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Victor Ben Olowoleni
victorolowoleni@gmail.com
Department of Human Kinetics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Titilola Stella Akingbola Department of Haematology, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
John Oluwasogo Ayorinde Department of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Ade Fatai Adeniyi Department of Physiotherapy, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Keywords:

Athletes, cultural, environmental, emotional-differences, Nigeria, urine doping

Abstract

Athletes who compete may be subjected to urine doping tests after each competition, training session, or at other occasions. Despite the restrictions and penalties, doping still manages to contaminate sports. Africans still have misgivings about anti-doping measures since they believe they were excluded from the regulatory process. The study's goal was to obtain empirical evidence on Nigerian athletes' attitudes toward urine doping prevention, influenced by; athletes' cultural, environmental, and emotional peculiarities. Participants included, 165(21.4 years, ± 2.1) athletes from 10 sports. Participation was voluntary. Mixed methods of quantitative and in-depth interviews were used to collect data. Descriptive statistics and testing for differences between categorical variables were calculated using a 2×2 table, chi2 and gamma tests. Findings indicated that; athletes voluntarily submitted to testing, with statistical significance for testing frequency (0.004) and age (0.022), but not for gender difference (0.66). Common themes in athletes' feedback were that their cultural norms were violated, confidentiality, presence of an atmosphere of bias that could damage test results, and conventional doping tests causing psychological pain, suffering and shame. It was concluded that the peculiarity of athletes should be considered when developing global legislation.

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