标题：Compliance with Hygiene Rules and Frequency of Infectious Diseases Incidents at Sports/Fitness Centers: Comparative Study/Analysis between Recreational Basketball Players and People who Working out at Health Clubs
期刊名称：European Journal of Physical Education and Sport
印刷版ISSN：2310-0133
出版年度：2017
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：111-120
DOI：10.13187/ejpe.2017.2.111
出版社：Nauchnyi Izdatel'skii Dom Issledovatel',Academic Publishing House Researcher
摘要：The lack of personal hygiene (Luke, d’Hemecourt, 2007) and decontamination of sports centers (CDC, 2003; Duckro et al., 2005) contribute to the cause and transmission of diseases between the athletes (Collins – O'Connell, 2012) and people that work out in these facilities. The aim of this study is to investigate the implementation of personal hygiene rules among the amateur basketball players and athletes working out in fitness centers. Moreover, the conditions of hygiene that exist in these specific facilities used by the participants of this study were analyzed. In the end, an analysis between recreational basketball players and the people who work out in health clubs is conducted, in order to examine whether the first are efficiently informed of the hygiene rules compared to the latter. Survey and quantitative analysis, with data gathered through questionnaires which were distributed and completed by 923 participants. The sample was random and evenly selected among amateur basketball athletes in basketball teams and people working out at fitness centers. The data were analyzed with quantitative methods with statistical package SPSS 22. The Analysis brought out that recreational athletes tend to not apply personal hygiene rule thoroughly. Low performance on personal hygiene is highly related to the frequency that recreational basketball athletes become ill or infected in their sports halls. People working out at health clubs appear more competent in the application of hygiene rules, their sports spaces tend to be more hygiene friendly and therefore they are less often ill or infected in comparison to recreational basketball athletes.
