A Serious Game Approach in Mitigating Performance Enhancement Culture in Youth (GAME Project)

Barikoukis, Vasileios; Tsiatsos, Τhrasyvoulos; Politopoulos, Nikolaos; Stylianidis, Panagiotis; Ziagkas, Efthymios; Loukovitis, Andreas; Lazuras, Lambros; Ypsilanti, Antonia

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11932-4_68

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“…The present study aimed to answer the call of WADA regarding the issues most related to susceptibility to consuming banned substances on the part of young athletes, who might consider doping as a shortcut to achieving sport goals [24]. The main intent was to develop an anti-doping intervention that could take into account scientific suggestions, such as overcoming the classical educational programs in favor of psychological ones [25], focusing on theoretical frameworks [6] and evaluating the effects of technological antidoping interventions [14]. On this basis, the findings suggest that this SG-based anti-doping intervention was able to influence doping intention, moral disengagement, and doping knowledge in sport high school students.…”

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“…Part of the scientific literature on anti-doping research [11,14] has taken into account the innovation in using SG as a learning opportunity that facilitates and stimulates independent and active learning, and improves levels of information and the likelihood of persuasion and attitude and behavior changes [14]. Starting from these considerations, the authors implemented SG programs, such as GAME Project or TARGET, with the aim to transform anti-doping education interventions.…”

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“I Am on Top!”: An Interactive Intervention Program to Promote Self-Regulation Processes in the Prevention of the Use of Doping in Sports High Schools

Galli,

Chirico,

Codella

et al. 2023

EJIHPE

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The use of substances to improve sports performance is a widespread phenomenon among adolescents. Several anti-doping programs have been developed, mainly based on knowledge-based evidence. The main aim of the present study was to implement an anti-doping intervention in sports high school students, based on a psychological framework, such as Socio-Cognitive Theory, through the development of a Serious Game (SG), i.e., digital learning based on the game. The experimental design included an intervention group (n = 167; F = 37.7%; Meanage = 17.5 years; SD = 0.58) and a control group (n = 112; F = 42%; Meanage = 17.6; SD = 1). Both of the groups completed the same questionnaire on two different occasions (i.e., time 1 and time 2) for measuring doping intention, self-regulatory efficacy to resist social pressure for the use of substances, moral disengagement, and doping knowledge. Data were analyzed through repeated measures of Group X Time ANOVA, demonstrating some degree of efficacy of the intervention, in particular in terms of the decrease in doping intention and the strengthening of doping knowledge. Moreover, the study demonstrated that the score obtained during the implementation of the SG could partially represent a coherent measure of the participants’ beliefs regarding doping. These results could be considered a starting point for future research to better develop technological anti-doping interventions.

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“I Am on Top!”: An Interactive Intervention Program to Promote Self-Regulation Processes in the Prevention of the Use of Doping in Sports High Schools

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Codella

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Virtual Reality Against Doping: The Case of Project VIRAL

Barkoukis

Elbe

Lazuras

et al. 2022

New Realities, Mobile Systems and Applications

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Doping is considered a major threat of modern sport. Since the establishment of the anti-doping system emphasis was placed on the detection and punishment approach in the fight against doping. Recently a shift to education as a preventive tool against doping has been made. In this effort several antidoping educational interventions have been developed. These interventions have been found modestly effective in educating athletes against doping. To move education, forward a virtual reality game is proposed. Virtual reality has been found effective in changing attitudes, intention and behavior. Therefore, virtual reality can be suitable in addressing the appearance and performance related reasoning underlying the decision making towards the use of performance and appearance enhancing substances. The present paper describes the conceptual basis of VIRAL project that aims to develop the first virtual reality game for doping prevention in competitive and recreational sports. The VIRAL project will a) utilize cutting-edge behavioural science research about the risk and protective factors against doping use to inform the development of an antidoping virtual reality program, b) use an "open innovation" framework to codesign the anti-doping virtual reality program and c) apply and evaluate the effectiveness of the doping prevention VR program in changing young people's learning, motivation, beliefs and behaviour towards doping. Overall, the VIRAL project is expected to develop anti-doping educational material that will address the needs of young athletes and will be able to educate against doping through innovative learning pedagogies.

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“I Am on Top!”: An Interactive Intervention Program to Promote Self-Regulation Processes in the Prevention of the Use of Doping in Sports High Schools

Galli,

Chirico,

Codella

et al. 2023

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The use of substances to improve sports performance is a widespread phenomenon among adolescents. Several anti-doping programs have been developed, mainly based on knowledge-based evidence. The main aim of the present study was to implement an anti-doping intervention in sports high school students, based on psychological framework, such as Socio-Cognitive Theory, through the development of a Serious Game (SG), i.e., a digital learning based on the game. The experimental design included an intervention group (n=167; F=37.7%; Meanage=17.5 years) and a control group (n=112; F=42%; Meanage=17.6). Both of groups completed the same questionnaire in two different occasions (i.e., time 1 and time 2), for measuring doping intention, self-regulatory efficacy to resist social pressure for the use of substances, moral disengagement, and doping knowledge. Data were analyzed through repeated measures of Group X Time ANOVA, demonstrating some degree of efficacy of the intervention, in particular, in terms of decrease of doping intention and the strengthening of doping knowledge. Moreover, we demonstrated that the score obtained during the implementation of the Serious Game partially could represent a coherent measure of the participants’ beliefs regarding doping. These results could be considered a starting point for future research to better develop technological anti-doping interventions.

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A Serious Game Approach in Mitigating Performance Enhancement Culture in Youth (GAME Project)

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“I Am on Top!”: An Interactive Intervention Program to Promote Self-Regulation Processes in the Prevention of the Use of Doping in Sports High Schools

“I Am on Top!”: An Interactive Intervention Program to Promote Self-Regulation Processes in the Prevention of the Use of Doping in Sports High Schools

Virtual Reality Against Doping: The Case of Project VIRAL

“I Am on Top!”: An Interactive Intervention Program to Promote Self-Regulation Processes in the Prevention of the Use of Doping in Sports High Schools

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