Clinical trial NCT04842461: Mental Health, Addictions and Biomarkers in High Athletes Performance
Official title: Presence of Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder as Well as Genetic Biomarkers and the Inhibition-prepulse Endophenotype in Elite Athletes
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Mental Disorder
Anxiety
Depression
Substance Abuse
Pathological Gambling
Keywords: mental disorder
gambling
despression
anxiety
Lead sponsor: Cardenal Herrera University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Villarreal CF
First posted: 2021-04-13
Enrollment: 306
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Elite football players from Spanish football league

Brief summary: Sport is a privileged area to promote socialization and health values, such as companionship; a healthy lifestyle; cooperation to achieve common goals, and justice, rejecting unjustified advantages in competition. The concept of fair play is on which the development of those values pivots. From a holistic perspective, it is possible to define fair play, not only as a way to participate but also as a way of projecting people in life with values, assuming a set of behaviors that enhance a healthy and respectful sporting experience with opponents, the companions, the spectators, the referees and all the agents that take part in the sport practice.

Detailed description: Sport is a privileged area to promote socialization and health values, such as companionship; a healthy lifestyle; cooperation to achieve common goals, and justice, rejecting unjustified advantages in competition. The concept of fair play is on which the development of those values pivots. From a holistic perspective, it is possible to define fair play, not only as a way to participate but also as a way of projecting people in life with values, assuming a set of behaviors that enhance a healthy and respectful sporting experience with opponents, the companions, the spectators, the referees and all the agents that take part in the sport practice.

Since 2018, joint actions have been carried out with the Villarreal de Fútbol Club, within the framework of the ENDAVANT agreement. Within these actions, it is proposed to develop different lines of research on sport and health. Within these lines, one of special relevance is that related to the risk of consumption of illicit substances and / or behavioral addictions, in elite athletes, since they are subjected to intense training days and stress situations derived from the demands of performance of professional competitive activity. On the other hand, recently published behavioral studies show that athletes who practice non-contact sports have a greater capacity to identify and assess emotions than athletes who practice contact sports and than those who practice contact sports show higher levels of physical aggression or verbal, and hostility or anger, than athletes who practice individual and non-contact sports.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* active athletes in the elite soccer competition from the Villarreal CF, who agree to be included in the study by signing an informed consent and who have a health profile made by the club's Medical Service.

Exclusion Criteria:

* athletes who are transferred to other clubs during the study period.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Common drugs
timeFrame: 2 years
measure: Identify other mental disorders
timeFrame: 2 years
measure: Explore the consumption of new psychoactive substances
timeFrame: 2 years
measure: Pathological gambling
timeFrame: 2 years
measure: Mental disorders
timeFrame: 2 years
measure: Genetic biomarkers
timeFrame: 2 years
measure: Dopping
timeFrame: 2 years
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Villa-Real
country: Spain
facility: Villarreal CF
state: Castellón
city: Villarreal
country: Spain
facility: Villarreal CF
state: Castellón
Study officials:
affiliation: Medical Services of Villarreal CF SAD
name: Adolfo Muñoz Macho, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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