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NCT Number: NCT06928623

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

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).

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Key information

Age range

18 year–19 year

Sex eligibility

Male

Study type

Observational

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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.

Treatment and study plan

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. Assessment of anxiety

    Time frame: Screening visit

    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.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Assessment of the main sociodemographic variables

    Time frame: Screening visit

    In the evaluation of the main sociodemographic variables, the following will be evaluated: age (in completed months) and type of school/work activity (sedentary/active)

  2. Measuring the number of hamstring injuries

    Time frame: Screening visit

    For the data analysis, each subject will be asked to indicate, among the clinical variables, the number of hamstring injuries they have had over the last 3 seasons

  3. Measurement of weekly training load

    Time frame: Screening visit

    For the data analysis, each subject will be asked to indicate, among the sports variables, the weekly training load (in hours) that they usually have during the competition stage of the season.

  4. Assessment of the main anthropometric variables

    Time frame: Screening visit

    In the assessment of the main anthropometric variables, weight (in kg) will be measured.

  5. Measuring the duration of hamstring injuries

    Time frame: Screening visit

    For the data analysis, each subject will be asked to indicate, among the clinical variables, the duration (measured in weeks) of the hamstring injuries they have had over the last 3 seasons

  6. Measurement of the date of the last hamstring injury

    Time frame: Screening visit

    For the data analysis, each subject will be asked to indicate, among the clinical variables, the date of the last injury (measured in weeks) to the hamstring muscles over the last 3 seasons

  7. Measurement of the number of seasons that the soccer player has been competing

    Time frame: Screening visit

    For the data analysis, each subject will be asked to indicate, among the sports variables, the number of seasons that they have been federated, competing in soccer.

  8. Measurement of the footballer's regular starting position in the team

    Time frame: Screening visit

    For the data analysis, each subject will be asked to indicate, among the sporting variables, the footballer's regular starting position in the football team, with a dichotomous answer (yes/no).

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso

CONTACT

[email protected]

Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

0034 985103386

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

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Registry information

Official study title

Anxiety in Non-professional Football Players With Recurrent Hamstring Injuries. An Ambispective Cohort Study.

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2025
Study completion
2025
First posted
Apr 15, 2025
Registry last updated
Apr 15, 2025

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