Avaliação do conhecimento sobre suplementação alimentar e esteroides anabolizantes de alunos do ensino médio de Dourados-MS

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of high school students about food supplementation (SA) and anabolic steroids (AAS); detect how that information come to them and the degree of interest in the subject. To this was accomplished a field research and data were obtained from a questionnaire answered voluntarily and anonymously by 161 students, two state schools in Dourados-MS. With the results we can conclude that most students have heard about EAA and SA corresponding to 85.09%; the level of knowledge is low because more than 60% did not know about the effects of these substances and only 23.60% identified differences between them; the main sources of information are the means of communication and the students have an interest in issues for 71.43% of the students would like the school offered information on the subject.