NCT05639842

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 413 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

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.

Conditions

• Pain
• Athletes
• Physical Disability

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pain in competitive athletes with physical disabilities. Techniques for its management, support received and perceived difficulties.	A total of 413 athletes with physical disabilities participated in the study, 157 Spanish athletes and 260 Latin American athletes. The athletes were contacted through different sports federations, Paralympic Committees and sports teams of people with disabilities.For the distribution of the questionnaire, the researcher made an initial telephone contact with the Spanish Paralympic Committee and the Spanish Sports Federation for People with Physical Disabilities, to explain the objectives of the study and ask for their collaboration in the dissemination. Subsequently, the information was officially sent to them by email.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-09
• Primary completion: 2021-12-09
• Completion: 2022-04-17
• First posted: 2022-12-06
• Last updated: 2022-12-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain