Anxiety in Non-professional Football Players With Recurrent Hamstring Injuries.

NCT06928623 | Not Yet Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: AnsFut
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 88
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Introduction. Faced with the risk of injury relapse, and as athletes train and compete, they generate anxiety that limits their ability to push themselves to the maximum, influencing their performance. Objectives. i) To identify the state and trait anxiety of non-professional athletes with previous hamstring injuries; ii) To evaluate the main prognostic factors of anxiety in these athletes; and iii) To analyze the best predictive model of anxiety in soccer players with previous hamstring injuries. Material and method. Ambispective cross-sectional cohort study. 88 players will be recruited. The primary variable of the study will be anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory), with the number of recurrences of the study injury being the dependent variable. The secondary variables, estimated as modifying or confounding, will be the main sociodemographic variables (age, type of school/work activity), clinical (number of hamstring injuries, number of relapses of injury in the same location, duration of injury in weeks, date of last injury), sports (weekly training load, seasons competing, regular starting line-up) and anthropometric (weight).

Conditions

Football Player

Keywords

Football players; Anxiety; Hamstring muscles; Recurrence of injury; Physiotherapy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Assessment of anxiety

  Anxiety will be evaluated using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. This scale will be used to measure the perception of anxiety of the patients included in the study. The state and trait of anxiety of each subject is evaluated with a score of 0 to 30 points for each scale, where a higher score indicates a higher anxiety index in the trait or state.

  Screening visit

Secondary Outcomes (8)

• Assessment of the main sociodemographic variables

  Screening visit

• Measuring the number of hamstring injuries

  Screening visit

• Measurement of weekly training load

  Screening visit

• Assessment of the main anthropometric variables

  Screening visit

• Measuring the duration of hamstring injuries

  Screening visit

Study Arms (1)

Observational group

A single measurement will be taken, and the data will be analyzed anonymously, as the identity of the patients filling in the questionnaires will be unknown to the analyst. The primary variable of the study will be anxiety, with the number of recurrences of the lesion under study being the dependent variable. The secondary variables, estimated as modifying or confounding variables, will be the main clinical, sports, anthropometric and sociodemographic variables.

Other: Surveys

Interventions

Surveys OTHER

In the present study, no intervention will be carried out, with the recruited subjects only completing the questionnaires set out in the study variables.

Observational group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 19 Years
• Sex: male
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Footballers who will be recruited to the teams Real Murcia, Real Murcia Promesas, Alcantarilla, UCAM, Churra, Guadalupe, all of them belonging to the under-19 category.

You may qualify if:

• Male athletes aged 18 to 19
• Registered in the Division of Honor category of the Region of Murcia
• Who are university students
• With previous hamstring injuries in the last 12 months.

You may not qualify if:

• Athletes with an injury, muscular or not, at the time of the study
• Athletes in their first year as registered soccer players.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

Interventions

Surveys and Questionnaires

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Data Collection; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Quality of Health Care; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Public Health; Environment and Public Health

Study Officials

• Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso

  Universidad de Oviedo

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso, PhD

CONTACT

0034 985103386; ruben.cuestab@gmail.com

Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso

CONTACT

cuestaruben@uniovi.es

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Target Duration: 1 Day
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 31, 2025
• First Posted: April 15, 2025
• Study Start: April 10, 2025
• Primary Completion: April 29, 2025
• Study Completion: May 25, 2025
• Last Updated: April 15, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-03