An Explanatory Model of Doping Susceptibility Examining Morality in Elite Track and Field Athletes: A Logistic Regression Analysis

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

We recommend incorporating some reflection that gives more foundation to the work from sociological and educational perspectives. In particular:

1.    The first chapter will help to reinforce the sociological contextualization of the problem of doping in sport:

Sánchez-Pato, A. y Leiva, A. (2021). Il modelo Sociológico. In F. Pigozzi, F. Lucidi & E. Isidori (Eds.). L’Educaczu¡ione antidoping. Modeli, método e estrategia (pp. 52-62). Franco Angeli. (https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/book/695)

2.    The second chapter will reinforce the need to address the problem from educational perspectives:

Sánchez-Pato, A. y Mosquera, MªJ. (2017). Papel de la educación y de la información en la prevención del dopaje. En P. Manonelles y A. Luque (coords). Guía de prevención del dopaje. Lo que el deportista debe conocer sobre el dopaje y su prevención (259-277). Universidad Católica de Murcia.

(http://femede.es/documentos/guia_prevencion_dopaje_muestra.pdf)

Author Response

Dear reviewer, thank you for your feedback and the valuable references provided. We have added them in the manuscript (line 41 and line 301) alongside with some text to enhance the sociological contextualization and educational perspectives of the doping phenomenon.

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors, your manuscript is well written and straightforward. You conducted a study on a very important issue. This study showed an explanatory model of doping susceptibility among competitive track and field athletes using a logistic regression analysis accounting for some morality-related variables which were not explored in previous studies. Despite the relevant results of your study, I have few comments.

I think you could improve the quality of your tables and figure. In addition, some references need to be updated. 

Author Response

Dear reviewer, thank you for your suggestions. We have made some changes in  Table 2 to clarify data of variables used in the regression model. Moreover we added the following text in line 189: “Means and/or Factor Analysis technique were performed to generate explanatory variables to introduce in the model and were indicated as transformed variables in Table 2.” We also added some text in caption of table 3 to clarify, and two additional updated references (line 41 and line 301).

Reviewer 3 Report

The paper deals with developing am explanatory model of doping susceptibility of athletes using logistic regression analysis accounting for some morality related variables. The article is well written and the objective of the study is very unique. It can be accepted after incorporating following suggestions 

1. Include  some more review works in introduction section and focus on the main areas of the study

2. Materials and methods section need to be described properly so that everyone  can understand the procedures clearly.

3. I suggest to elaborate the result section properly.

4. If possible give the confidence interval of the odds 

Author Response

Dear reviewer, thank you for bringing up these comments.

Point 1: we have added an updated reference in the introduction (line 41) and in discussion (line 301) as suggested.

Point 2 and 3: we made a minor change in material and methods section (line 189) and we updated Table 2 and 3 to clarify.

Point 4: we added confidence interval of the odds ratio (lines 231-234)