Pain in Competitive Athletes With Physical Disabilities: Techniques, Support and Perceived Difficulties

Pain in Competitive Athletes With Physical Disabilities: Techniques for Its Management, Support Received and Perceived Difficulties

Pain in physically disabled athletes affects the sporting career directly or indirectly through psychological consequences. Numerous studies address psychological skills in able-bodied athletes and in able-bodied athletes they are scarce.This information is part of a research project aimed at finding resources to help athletes in their pain management.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Pain; Physical Disability; Athletes
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Pain in competitive athletes with physical disabilities. Techniques for its management, support received and perceived difficulties.

Detailed Description

The purpose of this study is to determine how competitive athletes perceive how pain can affect their sporting careers; what techniques and/or strategies athletes use for pain management and how useful these are; to determine the extent to which athletes with disabilities have received support for pain management and to what extent they have found it useful; and to determine the difficulties they often face in managing their pain.The aim of this questionnaire is to find out how pain, resulting from injury, can affect the sporting careers of competitive athletes with physical disabilities and what techniques they use to manage it.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 413

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Madrid, Spain, 28410
    • Sandra Constantino Murillo

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 15 years to 60 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

A total of 413 participants were interviewed on a voluntary basis. Spanish and Latin American nationality.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Athletes:

• Competitive athletes.
• Physical disability.
• Age without criteria.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Failure to meet the inclusion criteria.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Other
• Time Perspectives: Other

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Cross-sectional surveys	An ad-hoc questionnaire was developed with questions that sought to respond to the specific objectives of this study, taking into consideration the information obtained in the previous qualitative study. The questionnaire consisted of 74 questions, 68 closed multiple-choice and 6 open-ended, organised into six sections: characteristics of the athlete, how pain affects their sporting career, tolerance and acceptance of pain, techniques and strategies for managing pain, social support for pain management and finally difficulties in pain management. A Likert scale from 1 (very infrequently) to 5 (very often) was used.Depending on the interpretation of the questions asked in each section, higher scores mean a better or worse result.	5 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Sandra Constantino Murillo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 9, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 9, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): April 17, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 21, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 2, 2022
• First Posted (Estimate): December 6, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): December 6, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 2, 2022
• Last Verified: December 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Chronic pain; Athlete; Physical disability; Psychological models
• Other Study ID Numbers: UPMadrid.

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No