Using the Sport Drug Control Model to Review the Social Science Research on Doping and Identify Areas for Future Research

The WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) Education Committee is seeking to target its Social Science Research Program to areas that would have greatest return in terms of enhancing the effectiveness of anti-doping education interventions. The objective of this project was to use the Sport Drug Control Model framework (SDCM; Donovan et al., 2002) to establish priorities for future social science research by reviewing what research has been completed in each of the model’s domains and identifying where more research is needed. The primary required outcome was the list of recommendations rather than the review per se.