Examınatıon of Sports Injury Anxıety Level and Sports Injury Preventıon Awareness of Unıversıty Students Partıcıpatıng in Sports

NCT06766344 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: SPORTS INJURY
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 126
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study aimed to evaluate the concerns of university students who are involved in sports on more than one subject related to sports injuries (anxiety of losing ability, anxiety of suffering, anxiety of losing social support, etc.). In addition, in this study, the awareness of protection from sports injuries was evaluated in order to minimize sports injuries and create awareness of injury prevention, based on the idea that the athlete will be injured less with less anxiety in sports life.

Conditions

Sport Injuries

Keywords

Awareness; Sport; Injury; Students

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• assessment of sports injury anxiety among students

  Examınatıon of Sports Injury Anxıety Level of Unıversıty Students Partıcıpatıng in Sports. Their thoughts and anxiety levels about sports injury were evaluated with the 'Sports Injury Anxiety Scale', whose Turkish validity and reliability study was conducted by Caz et al. (2019). The scale consists of 19 items in total. It consists of sub-dimensions such as loss of ability, suffering, perceived weakness, loss of social support, disappointment, and anxiety of re-injury. A 5-point Likert scale was used in the evaluation. The survey questions were answered as "1=Strongly Disagree" and "5=Strongly Agree". The lowest score that can be obtained from the scale is 19 and the highest score is 95.

  Day 1 (when students first arrive)

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• evaluation of students' awareness of protection from sports injuries

  Day 1 (when students first arrive)

Study Arms (3)

Faculty of Sports Sciences

Faculty of Health Sciences

Faculty of Medicine

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 35 Years
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

The study was conducted on university students participating in various sports branches, especially volleyball, basketball, soccer, swimming, fitness, pilates, walking. A total of 126 volunteer university students who regularly participated in sports were included in the study. Those with a history of chronic disease or regular medication use were excluded from the study, and those who did not complete the survey questions required for the study were excluded from the study. In the power analysis performed to determine the sample size, the type I error was 0.05 and the type II error was 0.2. The power was set at 0.8. Power analysis was performed using the G-Power 3.1.7 package (Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany). The minimum number of subjects to be included in the study in each group was determined as 18 in order to find a mean difference of 3 units significant according to the Sports Injury Anxiety Scale sub-dimension score.

You may qualify if:

• Volunteering to participate in the research
• To be a student in one of the Faculties of Sports Sciences, Health Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
• Participating in a regular sport branch

You may not qualify if:

• \- Being diagnosed with a chronic disease or regular medication use
• Not being a student in one of the Faculties of Sports Sciences, Health Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
• Voluntary separation from employment
• Failure to complete the questionnaires to be applied within the scope of the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Inonu University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Inönü University

Malatya, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Wounds and Injuries

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: OTHER
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 27, 2024
• First Posted: January 9, 2025
• Study Start: June 26, 2023
• Primary Completion: August 10, 2023
• Study Completion: September 10, 2023
• Last Updated: January 9, 2025

Record last verified: 2024-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)