The Sports-Related Injuries and Illnesses in Para-sport Study (SRIIPS)

Athletic Injuries Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Sports-Related Injuries and Illnesses in Para-sport Study (SRIIPS): A Prospective Longitudinal Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02788500
• Other study ID #: P2016-0069
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 22, 2016
• Last updated: March 6, 2018
• Start date: November 2016
• Est. completion date: January 2018

Study information

• Verified date: March 2018
• Source: Lund University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The overall aim of this project is to gain an in-depth understanding of the epidemiology of sports-related injuries and illnesses in parasport in order to assist the identification and development of specific injury prevention strategies adapted to parasport.

Description:

The Paralympic Games is today one of the largest sport event in the world. During the last decades parasport has in many ways become elite sport, allowing people with disabilities to achieve extraordinary heights of functional capability. With the growing number of athletes there is an increased interest in athletes' health and safety, both to enhance sports performance and to prevent injuries.

Even though it is well-known that participation in sports places the athlete at risk for injuries, there are few studies covering sports-related injuries and illnesses in parasport (SRIIP). Today, some injuries and illnesses are known to be preventable. However, this requires regular monitoring of internal and external load during athletic preparation. Standardized injury surveillances have been implemented within several sports for abled-bodied athletes, but such studies do not yet exist within parasport.

In our review article (Fagher & Lexell 2014) the investigators showed that existing studies of sports-related injuries in athletes with disabilities have a variable quality and that specific disability related factors have not been examined. Further studies are therefore warranted to obtain an increased in-depth knowledge of SRIIP. With a systematic longitudinal surveillance system tailored to parasport it would be possible to observe trends and risk factors over time, and thereby have a basis for developing specific preventive measures.

The overall aim of this project is to gain an in-depth understanding of the epidemiology of SRIIP in parasport in order to assist the identification and development of specific injury prevention strategies adapted to parasport.

The specific aims are: i) to design and implement a study protocol for prospective epidemiological studies of SRIIP in parasport; ii) to prospectively estimate the annual incidence of SRIIP among Swedish Paralympic athletes; and iii) to explore risk factors and mechanisms for sustaining SRIIP based on athlete exposure in order to form the basis for moving towards safe participation in parasport.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 107
• Est. completion date: January 2018
• Est. primary completion date: January 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 55 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 18-55 years

• Being a registered competitive athlete within the Swedish Paralympic Program/Organization

• Being able to communicate in Swedish and having the opportunity to every week answer a web-based questionnaire.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Athletic Injuries
• Wounds and Injuries

Intervention

Other:
• Incidence of sports-related injuries and illnesses
The SRIIP-study is an epidemiological cohort study aimed to prospectively collect self-report data on sports-related injuries and illnesses incidence and risk exposure during training and competition for approximately one year among Swedish para-athletes.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Rehabilitation Medicine Research group	Lund

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Lund University	Linkoeping University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

References & Publications (3)

Fagher K, Lexell J. Sports-related injuries in athletes with disabilities. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2014 Oct;24(5):e320-31. doi: 10.1111/sms.12175. Epub 2014 Jan 15. Review. — View Citation

Jacobsson J, Timpka T, Ekberg J, Kowalski J, Nilsson S, Renström P. Design of a protocol for large-scale epidemiological studies in individual sports: the Swedish Athletics injury study. Br J Sports Med. 2010 Dec;44(15):1106-11. doi: 10.1136/bjsm.2009.067678. Epub 2010 May 19. — View Citation

Timpka T, Alonso JM, Jacobsson J, Junge A, Branco P, Clarsen B, Kowalski J, Mountjoy M, Nilsson S, Pluim B, Renström P, Rønsen O, Steffen K, Edouard P. Injury and illness definitions and data collection procedures for use in epidemiological studies in Athletics (track and field): consensus statement. Br J Sports Med. 2014 Apr;48(7):483-90. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2013-093241. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Incidence of sports-related injuries and illnesses	The athletes will be asked to self-report incidence of sports-related injuries and illnesses based on the surveillence systems developed by Jacobsson et al 2010 and Timpka 2014.	Weekly during one year
Secondary	Exposure of training	The athletes will be asked to report exposure and perceived exertion of training (hours and minutes of training and rated perceived exertion (RPE) based on the RPE-scale).	Weekly during one year
Secondary	Pain	The athletes will be asked to report their perceived pain during the week on a visual analogue scale (VAS) scale.	Weekly during one year
Secondary	General well-being	The athletes will be asked to report their perceived general well-being based on questions from the Health-related quality of life questionnaire EQ-5D.	Weekly during one year