Clinical trial NCT06928623: Anxiety in Non-professional Football Players With Recurrent Hamstring Injuries.
Official title: Anxiety in Non-professional Football Players With Recurrent Hamstring Injuries. An Ambispective Cohort Study.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Conditions: Football Player
Keywords: Football players
Anxiety
Hamstring muscles
Recurrence of injury
Physiotherapy
Lead sponsor: Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2025-04-15
Enrollment: 88
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 19
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
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.

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).


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 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.

Exclusion Criteria:

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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Assessment of anxiety
timeFrame: Screening visit
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Assessment of the main sociodemographic variables
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Measuring the number of hamstring injuries
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Measurement of weekly training load
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Assessment of the main anthropometric variables
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Measuring the duration of hamstring injuries
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Measurement of the date of the last hamstring injury
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Measurement of the number of seasons that the soccer player has been competing
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Measurement of the footballer's regular starting position in the team
timeFrame: Screening visit
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Universidad de Oviedo
name: Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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