Clinical trial NCT05262283: Has The COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Injury in Football?
Official title: Has The COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Injury in Football? Example of a Professional Football Team
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Injuries
Keywords: COVID-19
Football
Injuries
Lead sponsor: Karadeniz Technical University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-03-02
Enrollment: 24
Sex: MALE
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Participants consist of professional football players who have a contract with the A team.

Brief summary: This study aims to compare the injuries that occurred in the football players after the isolation and lack of training caused by New Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), with the previous season, based on the example of a professional football team in Turkey.

Detailed description: This study aims to compare the injuries that occurred in the football players who faced an intense match tempo after the isolation and lack of training caused by COVID-19, as well as the stress and uncertainty, with the previous season, based on the example of a professional football team in Turkey. Injury follow-up data were examined.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Having a musculoskeletal injury during the official match or team training in the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 season

Exclusion Criteria:

* Signing a contract with Trabzonspor A Team in the 2020-2021 season

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of injuries
timeFrame: Change of data in the first 26 matches of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons
measure: Injury time
timeFrame: Change of data in the first 26 matches of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons
measure: Injury severity
timeFrame: Change of data in the first 26 matches of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons
measure: Injury type
timeFrame: Change of data in the first 26 matches of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons
measure: Injury location
timeFrame: Change of data in the first 26 matches of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons
measure: Injured tissue
timeFrame: Change of data in the first 26 matches of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons
measure: Injured side
timeFrame: Change of data in the first 26 matches of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons
measure: Injury mechanism
timeFrame: Change of data in the first 26 matches of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons
measure: Rule violation
timeFrame: Change of data in the first 26 matches of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons
measure: Recurrence
timeFrame: Change of data in the first 26 matches of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Training
timeFrame: Change of data in the first 26 matches of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons
measure: Missed Matches
timeFrame: Change of data in the first 26 matches of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Trabzon
country: Turkey
facility: Karadeniz Technical University
Study officials:
affiliation: Karadeniz Technical University
name: Nurhayat Korkmaz, PhDstudent
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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