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  • Title: Attitudes and behaviors with regards to androgenic anabolic steroids among male adolescents in a county of Sweden.
    Author: Nilsson S, Spak F, Marklund B, Baigi A, Allebeck P.
    Journal: Subst Use Misuse; 2004 Jun; 39(8):1183-97. PubMed ID: 15461017.
    Abstract:
    This study investigates attitudes toward androgenic anabolic steroids among male adolescents who have used anabolics compared with those who have not. A cross-sectional survey was performed in the year 2000 in all secondary schools in the county of Halland on the west coast of Sweden. An anonymous multiple-choice questionnaire was distributed to all classes with 14-, 16-, and 18-year-old male adolescents. The response rate was 92.7% (n=4049). Those who admitted having used androgenic anabolic steroids differed in several ways from those who had not. Fewer believed androgenic anabolic steroids to be harmful (OR=0.15, 95% CI 0.08-0.30) and more believed that girls preferred boys with large muscles (OR=6.1, 95% CI 3.4-11.0). They trained more often at gyms (OR=5.6, 95% CI 3.0-10.6), drank more alcohol (OR=4.2, 95% CI 2.0-9.1), and had used narcotic drugs more often (OR=15.3, 95% CI 8.5-27.5) than the other male adolescents. More immigrants than native-born adolescents had used anabolics (OR=4.2, 95% CI 2.2-7.9). Attitudes toward anabolics differ between users and nonusers. These aspects may be beneficial to focus on as one part of a more complex intervention program in order to change these attitudes and decrease the misuse of androgenic anabolic steroids.
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