Effectiveness of anti-doping prevention in the training process of young athletes

The relevance of the scientific research, which results are presented in the article, is determined by a sharp worsening of a situation with the use of doping in sport and, therefore, the need for prevention work with young athletes, who are often poorly informed about the negative consequences of taking illegal drugs for health and sports career. The aim of the study was to determine the effectiveness of the anti-doping prevention among children's sports schools pupils in Volgograd, dealing with different sports and have different athletic skills. The evaluation was conducted by identifying the 15-17 year-old athletes' attitudes to negative social phenomena in sports, to healthy lifestyle and physical activity as well. The study involved 177 boys and girls dealing with different sports. All of them answered 3 blocks of questions: the first block concerned the attitude to motor activity, including their training process; the second to the attitude to healthy lifestyle; the third to the use of doping during training process and competitions. Based on the questionnaires analysis were obtained the following results. The best results in the preventive work were shown by coaches in athletics and rowing, the lowest effectiveness was presented by football specialists. The data say about the difference in indicators of attitude to doping among athletes of different qualifying categories. The wavelike indicators dynamics was revealed: the lowest ratio to doping has young athletes, the highest has athletes of the first sport grade, and sport masters' ratio is decreasing. The research results indicate the lack of systematic anti-doping preventive work among young athletes