Title |
Promoting functional foods as acceptable alternatives to doping: potential for information-based social marketing approach
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Published in |
Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, May 2022
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DOI | 10.1186/1550-2783-7-37 |
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Authors |
Ricky James, Declan P Naughton, Andrea Petróczi |
Abstract |
Substances with performance enhancing properties appear on a continuum, ranging from prohibited performance enhancing drugs (PED) through dietary supplements to functional foods (FF). Anti-doping messages designed to dissuade athletes from using PEDs have been typically based on moralising sport competition and/or employing scare campaigns with focus on the negative consequences. Campaigns offering comparable and acceptable alternatives are nonexistent, nor are athletes helped in finding these for themselves. It is timely that social marketing strategies for anti-doping prevention and intervention incorporate media messages that complement the existing approaches by promoting comparable and acceptable alternatives to doping. To facilitate this process, the aim of this study was to ascertain whether a single exposure knowledge-based information intervention led to increased knowledge and subsequently result in changes in beliefs and automatic associations regarding performance enhancements. |
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Italy | 1 | 50% |
Unknown | 1 | 50% |
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Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
Colombia | 1 | <1% |
Australia | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 105 | 95% |
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Student > Bachelor | 26 | 24% |
Student > Master | 17 | 15% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 12% |
Researcher | 9 | 8% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 5% |
Other | 18 | 16% |
Unknown | 21 | 19% |
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Sports and Recreations | 26 | 24% |
Social Sciences | 13 | 12% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 9% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 8% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 6% |
Other | 17 | 15% |
Unknown | 28 | 25% |