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Evaluation of Ergogenic Aids Usage and Their Encountered Health Problems among Coaching and Physical Education Teaching Students at Marmara University Physical Education and Sports College, Turkey



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Sena Nur Keskin, Cafer Ikbal Gulsever, Betul Ozpolat, Cihat Kurt, Seyhan Hidiroglu and Melda Karavus

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DOI:10.17265/1548-6648/2016.03.004

In the recent years, usage of ergogenic aids by sportsmen in order to improve their performance is increasing rapidly. The goal of this research is to evaluate ergogenic aids usage and their encountered health problems at Marmara University Physical Education and Sports College (M.U. PESC) students. It is a descriptive study from which a standard questionnaire with 23 questions is applied to M.U. PESC, Coaching and Physical Education Teaching involved 1-4th. year class students on February-March, 2015. It is applied to 325 students among 1150. Data is analyzed by using Chi-square, independent T-test, and logistic regression. Approximately 70% of the participants are males, and 30% are females. Mean age is 22 ± 3.94. The participants who joined the lecture, which is related with ergogenic aids, are greatly in 3rd and 4th classes (P = 0.000), and they know the term ergogenic aid better (P = 0.000). Finally, 39.25% of the students answered questions about proteins and amino acids incorrectly; this value is 48.67% for vitamins, 53.73% for bicarbonate, 66.56% for nicotine, and 44.46% for caffeine. The participants who joined the lectures know the term ergogenic aid better and use the aids more than the others. Despite the lectures, a large proportion of the students answered questions related to ergogenic aids incorrectly.

Amino acid, steroid, nutrition, ergogenic, diet.