COMPARISON OF DRUG RELATED KNOWLEDGE OF NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LEVEL WEIGHT LIFTERS

Dr. Hukum Singh

Abstract
Present study was conducted on comparison of drug related knowledge of national and university level weight lifters. Two hundred male national and university level weightlifters were selected as the subjects for this study. The subjects were contacted during All India Inter-University and National Championship. The data was collected through questionnaire method. A set of thirty questions covering the knowledge aspects of drugs and their harmful effects on the usages were constructed. To compare the drug related knowledge of national and university level weightlifters ‘t’-test were used and for testing the hypothesis the level of significance for the study was chosen as 0.05. The mean of drug related knowledge of senior national level weight lifters were larger than that of university level weight lifters. It is concluded that the drug related knowledge of senior national level weight lifters was significantly higher than that of university level weight lifters. The participation level of senior national level weight lifters was high than that of university level weight lifters thus they might be more aware of drug related knowledge aspect, drug addiction, anabolic steroids, doping, nutrition, prohibited list, masking agent, therapeutic use equipment, WADA, blood doping and smoking etc.
Keywords: Drug, Anabolic Steroids, Weight Lifters, Doping and Nutrition.