NCT05795426

An Investigation Of Kinesiophobia in Volleyball Players, With A Focus On Gender-Based Differences

Investigation of Kinesiophobia in Volleyball Players by Gender

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istanbul Medipol University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Kinesiophobia is a form of behavior that includes fear and anxiety in which the person tends to stay away from the movement. . In the future, this may lead to a decrease in muscle strength and condition, leading to loss or decrease in physical adequacy, avoidance of exercise and, accordingly, psychological problems. Kinesiophobia also negatively affects the success of the treatment process in athletes or normal patients.

Detailed description

In athletes, this situation affects the sports activity that they place at the center of their lives, causing loss of performance and, accordingly, the emergence of psychological problems. Athletes are faced with the deterioration of bone integrity during training or matches according to their branches, or they are injured by structures such as muscles, tendons and ligaments. One of the important criteria in pain, kinesiophobia and exercise is sleep quality. Results such as sleep quality or increased stress level in insomnia and inattention may have an effect on pain or kinesiophobia. The deterioration in sleep quality leads to a decrease in the performance ability of the person, affecting the daily activity, decreasing the energy level and being in a daytime sleepy state.

Conditions

• Volleyball Player

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-28
• Primary completion: 2025-03-06
• Completion: 2025-09-20
• First posted: 2023-04-03
• Last updated: 2025-11-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)