Doping prevalence in competitive sport: evidence synthesis with “best practice” recommendations and reporting guidelines from the WADA Working Group on Doping …

J Gleaves, A Petróczi, D Folkerts, O De Hon, E Macedo… - Sports Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background The prevalence of doping in competitive sport, and the methods for assessing
prevalence, remain poorly understood. This reduces the ability of researchers, governments …

Psychotherapy for mental health symptoms and disorders in elite athletes: a narrative review

MA Stillman, ID Glick, D McDuff, CL Reardon… - British journal of sports …, 2019 - bjsm.bmj.com
Background Athletes, like non-athletes, suffer from mental health symptoms and disorders
that affect their lives and their performance. Psychotherapy, either as the sole treatment or …

A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in British and Greek athletes: A cluster randomized controlled trial

M Kavussanu, V Barkoukis, P Hurst… - Psychology of Sport and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Current attempts to prevent doping through deterrence and education have had
limited success and have been constrained to one country. Targeting psychological …

Recreational athletes' use of performance-enhancing substances: results from the first European randomized response technique survey

AV Christiansen, M Frenger, A Chirico, W Pitsch - Sports Medicine-Open, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background and Aim Measuring the prevalence of doping in recreational sport is
difficult. However, to fit their initiatives, National Anti-Doping Organizations are interested in …

Hidden figures: Revisiting doping prevalence estimates previously reported for two major international sport events in the context of further empirical evidence and the …

A Petróczi, M Cruyff, O de Hon, D Sagoe… - Frontiers in Sports and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background High levels of admitted doping use (43.6% and 57.1%) were reported for two
international sport events in 2011. Because these are frequently referenced in evaluating …

Intelligence‐based doping control planning improves testing effectiveness: Perspectives from a national anti‐doping organisation

F Lauritzen, G Holden - Drug Testing and Analysis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anti‐doping organisations are mandated to provide a comprehensive anti‐doping
programme, which aims to detect, deter and prevent doping in sport. Direct detection of …

Refinement of the extended crosswise model with a number sequence randomizer: Evidence from three different studies in the UK

KHA Sayed, MJLF Cruyff, PGM van der Heijden… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The Extended Crosswise Model (ECWM) is a randomized response model with neutral
response categories, relatively simple instructions, and the availability of a goodness-of-fit …

Dealing with doping. A plea for better science, governance and education

JAAC Heuberger, A Henning… - British journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The creation of WADA contributed to harmonization of anti‐doping and changed doping
behavior and prevalence in the past 22 years. However, the system has developed …

A role for metabolomics in the antidoping toolbox?

L Narduzzi, G Dervilly, M Audran… - Drug testing and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence of the continuous rise of novel doping agents and novel doping strategies calls for
the development of more accurate multi‐target screening methods. Direct multi‐target …

Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

F Reiber, D Bryce, R Ulrich - Sociological Methods & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Randomized response techniques (RRTs) are applied to reduce response biases in self-
report surveys on sensitive research questions (eg, on socially undesirable characteristics) …