Athlete Doping Knowledge Analysis: A Case Study of the 20th National Sports Week (PON) Papua 2021 in Indonesia

Abstract

The study aims to identify athletes' doping knowledge at the 20th National Sports Week (PON XX Papua) in 2021. This study is a quantitative descriptive research study. The sample for this study included 40 athletes selected at the PON XX Papua using a random sampling technique. An athlete's doping knowledge test in the form of a multiple-choice test with four response choices was utilized as the research instrument, prepared based on the World Anti-Doping Code 2021 (WADC). The data were analyzed descriptively using percentages and significance tests such as the t-test and Kruskal Willis. According to the research findings, athletes' doping knowledge at PON XX Papua was in the low classification with 55%, the sufficient classification with 32.5%, and the high classification with 12.5%. The dimension of factual knowledge of athletes is in the low classification (53%); the dimension of conceptual knowledge is in the low classification (50%), and the dimension of procedural knowledge is in the sufficient classification (59%). Based on athlete characteristics, the knowledge of doping athletes in individual and group sports did not significantly differ (sig. 0.973 > α=0.05). Furthermore, while there was no significant difference in athletes' doping knowledge based on gender (sig. 0.846 > α=0.05), there was a significant difference based on education level (sig. 0.027 < α=0.05).