SynthesisSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2022
Psychosocial Risk Factors for Overuse Injuries in Competitive Athletes: A Mixed-Studies Systematic Review.
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- Same game, different worlds? General conditions, perceived stress, and associations between stress and past season injuries in elite female and male ice hockey players.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Psychological risk factors for a first hamstring strain injury in soccer: a qualitative study.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Prospective cohort study identifying risk factors for sports injuries in adolescent athletes: the Healthy Injury-Free Adolescent Athletes (HIFAA) study.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- The Running Injury Continuum: A qualitative examination of recreational runners' description and management of injury.PloS one · 2023Article
- Youth athletes at Swedish sports high schools with an athletics specialism emphasise environmental support for injury risk management: a focus group study.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2023Article
- Lifestyle characteristics in adolescent female football players: data from the Karolinska football Injury Cohort.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundWhile the psychosocial risk factors for traumatic injuries have been comprehensively investigated, less is known about psychosocial factors predisposing athletes to overuse injuries.
objectiveThe aim of this review was to systematically identify studies and synthesise data that examined psychosocial risk factors for overuse injuries in athletes.
designSystematic review. DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE, Web of Science and PsycINFO databases, supplemented by hand searching of journals and reference lists. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR SELECTING STUDIES: Quantitative and qualitative studies involving competitive athletes, published prior to July 2021, and reporting the relationship between psychosocial variables and overuse injury as an outcome were reviewed. This was limited to academic peer-reviewed journals in Swedish, English, German, Spanish and French. An assessment of the risk of bias was performed using modified versions of the RoBANS and SBU Quality Assessment Scale for Qualitative Studies.
resultsNine quantitative and five qualitative studies evaluating 1061 athletes and 27 psychosocial factors were included for review. Intra-personal factors, inter-personal factors and sociocultural factors were found to be related to the risk of overuse injury when synthesised and reported according to a narrative synthesis approach. Importantly, these psychosocial factors, and the potential mechanisms describing how they might contribute to overuse injury development, appeared to be different compared with those already known for traumatic injuries.
conclusionsThere is preliminary evidence that overuse injuries are likely to partially result from complex interactions between psychosocial factors. Coaches and supporting staff are encouraged to acknowledge the similarities and differences between traumatic and overuse injury aetiology.
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