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

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

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).

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Football Player
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Surveys

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Estimated): 88

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso, PhD; Phone Number: 0034 985103386; Email: ruben.cuestab@gmail.com
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso; Email: cuestaruben@uniovi.es

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Footballers who will be recruited to the teams Real Murcia, Real Murcia Promesas, Alcantarilla, UCAM, Churra, Guadalupe, all of them belonging to the under-19 category.

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort

Intervention / Treatment

Observational group; A single measurement will be taken, and the data will be analyzed anonymously, as the identity of the patients filling in the questionnaires will be unknown to the analyst. The primary variable of the study will be anxiety, with the number of recurrences of the lesion under study being the dependent variable. The secondary variables, estimated as modifying or confounding variables, will be the main clinical, sports, anthropometric and sociodemographic variables.

Other: Surveys; In the present study, no intervention will be carried out, with the recruited subjects only completing the questionnaires set out in the study variables.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Assessment of anxiety	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.	Screening visit

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Assessment of the main sociodemographic variables	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)	Screening visit
Measuring the number of hamstring injuries	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	Screening visit
Measurement of weekly training load	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.	Screening visit
Assessment of the main anthropometric variables	In the assessment of the main anthropometric variables, weight (in kg) will be measured.	Screening visit
Measuring the duration of hamstring injuries	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	Screening visit
Measurement of the date of the last hamstring injury	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	Screening visit
Measurement of the number of seasons that the soccer player has been competing	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.	Screening visit
Measurement of the footballer's regular starting position in the team	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).	Screening visit

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso, Universidad de Oviedo

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Estimated): April 10, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): April 29, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): May 25, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 31, 2025
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 7, 2025
• First Posted (Actual): April 15, 2025

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 15, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 7, 2025
• Last Verified: March 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Anxiety; Physiotherapy; Hamstring muscles; Football players; Recurrence of injury
• Other Study ID Numbers: AnsFut

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No