College Athletes and Drug Testing: Attitudes and Behaviors by Gender and Sport

Dona Schneider, Joyce Morris
Joumal of Athletic Training Volume 28 * Number 2 * 1993
Urban Studies and Community Health at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in New Brunswick, NJ 08903

We surveyed varsity athletes at a Big East university to assess
attitudes toward a mandatory drug education and testing program and examined whether there were differences in drug-related attitudes and behaviors based on gender or varsity sport.

We found no statistically significant differences in personal drug use behaviors based on gender or team affiliation. Attitudes about drug use and knowledge of a teammate using drugs did show significant differences based on varsity sport. Tennis players were most likely to agree that drug use by college athletes is socially acceptable. Lacrosse players were most likely to know of at least one teammate using drugs. Overall, attitudes towards the mandatory drug education and testing program were ambivalent. About half of our responding athletes believed drug testing was necessary and discouraged drug use. Only 17% believed that the program was an invasion of privacy.

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