In the overall study of sports medicalization we questioned 2069 adolescents (representative samplings of students from the 7th to the 10 th grades conducted in Volgograd) to find out their attitude to the use of prohibited medications in sports. Statistical analyses were performed with the use of statistical package "STATISTI?A" (StatSoft, Tulsa, USA, 2010). Questionnaire from the 7th to the 10 th grade students showed that adolescents` attitudes towards drug intake on the prohibited list turned out to be as follows: 56,4%had a negative attitude ; 11,8% had a positive attitude; 31,8% had a neutral attitude. Male respondents and respondents aged 13 -14 showed a more positive attitude towards drug intake on the prohibited list than respondents aged 15-16. Most adolescents are latent to permission or prohibition of drug intake on the prohibited list, but the issue arises under certain circumstances (enhancing athletic performance in pursuit of excellence in sports; absence of drug test in youth competition, even to achieve the sport of setting records, etc). Due to psychological peculiarities of adolescents and absence of adolescents` negative attitudes towards this deviate practice the respondents endorse the use of performance-enhancing substances.
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