Investigating the influence of intraindividual changes in perceived stress symptoms on injury risk in soccer

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Risk Factor Week -- Fresh data on Health and Medicine - Sports Medicine are presented in a new report. According to news originating from Morgantown, West Virginia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Research has shown that high levels of stress and stress responsivity can increase the risk of injuries. However, most of the research that has supported this notion has focused on between-person relationships, ignoring the relationships at the within-person level.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from West Virginia University, “As a result, the objective of this study was to investigate if within-person changes in perceived stress symptoms over a 1-month time period could predict injury rates during the subsequent 3months. A prospective design with two measurement points (Time 1at the beginning of the season and Time 21month into the season) was utilized. A total of 121 competitive soccer players (85 males and 36 females; M-age=18.39, SD=3.08) from Sweden and the United States completed the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (KPDS) and a demographic sheet at Time 1. The KPDS was also completed at Time 2, and all acute injuries that occurred during the subsequent 3-month period were recorded. A Bayesian latent change scores model was used to determine whether within-person changes in stress symptoms could predict the risk of injury. Results revealed that there was a credible positive effect of changes in stress symptoms on injury rates, indicating that an increase in reported stress symptoms was related to an increased risk for injury.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This finding highlights the importance of creating caring and supportive sporting environments and relationships and teaching stress management techniques, especially during the earlier portion of competitive seasons, to possibly reduce the occurrence of injuries.”

For more information on this research see: Investigating the influence of intraindividual changes in perceived stress symptoms on injury risk in soccer. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports , 2018;28(4):1461-1466. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1600-0838)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from D. Clement, West Virginia Univ, Coll Phys Act & Sport Sci, Morgantown, WV, United States. Additional authors for this research include A. Ivarsson, U. Tranaeus, U. Johnson and A. Stenling.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.13048. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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CITATION: (2018-04-15), Data from West Virginia University Advance Knowledge in Sports Medicine (Investigating the influence of intraindividual changes in perceived stress symptoms on injury risk in soccer), Disease Risk Factor Week, 10, ISSN: 1553-3379, BUTTER® ID: 015445684

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