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NCT Number: NCT04842461

Mental Health, Addictions and Biomarkers in High Athletes Performance

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Mental Disorder Anxiety Anxiety Disorders Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Chemically-Induced Disorders Depression Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders Gambling Mental Disorders Pathological Gambling Risk-Taking Substance Abuse Substance-Related Disorders

Age range

18 year–40 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Villarreal CF, Ciudad Real, Castellón, Spain

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About this study

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.

Who can participate

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

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.

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. Common drugs

    Time frame: 2 years

    Describe the consumption of common drugs in elite athletes.

  2. Identify other mental disorders

    Time frame: 2 years

    Identify other mental disorders differents than addictions and psychopathy in elite athletes.

  3. Explore the consumption of new psychoactive substances

    Time frame: 2 years

    Explore the consumption of new psychoactive substances in elite athletes

  4. Pathological gambling

    Time frame: 2 years

    Describe the study of behavioral addictions and video game addiction in elite athletes.

  5. Mental disorders

    Time frame: 2 years

    Describe the presence of psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder

  6. Genetic biomarkers

    Time frame: 2 years

    Describe genetic biomarkers endophenotype in elite athletes.

  7. Dopping

    Time frame: 2 years

    Describe new dopping substances in elite atheletes.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Cardenal Herrera University

Other

Collaborators

  • Villarreal CF

Registry information

Official study title

Presence of Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder as Well as Genetic Biomarkers and the Inhibition-prepulse Endophenotype in Elite Athletes

Important dates

Study start
2020
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2022
First posted
Apr 13, 2021
Registry last updated
Feb 8, 2023

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