Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the post-injury psychological impact looking to avoid sources of health issues. We have analyzed differences in the stress, anxiety, and depression levels between male and female football players who have suffered at least one injury during the last season played, with respect to similar players who have not been injured. A descriptive cross-sectional design was used. The participants were 187 football players and data on the player’s injuries were collected. A self-reported questionnaire collected number, type, and severity of injuries sustained during the previous sports season (twelve months), and also the player’s current situation, being injured or not injured. To evaluate the psychological variables, the DASS-21 questionnaire was used. Results indicated that the male injured players presented anxiety levels higher than those who were non-injured. When we observe the female players’ data, the stress levels of the non-injured ones are higher than those of the injured players. Regarding the non-injured athletes, results showed that the female non-injured players presented values in anxiety higher than those corresponding to the non-injured male players. Thus, sport injury affects mental health issues such as anxiety and stress, and in a different way regarding gender.
Highlights
Sports injuries are inherent to the sports practice, and are quite familiar to the majority of athletes, as shown by numerous epidemiological studies [1,2]
The results of the study clearly show that there are no differences in levels of perceived stress, anxiety, and depression among male and female football players who had suffered at least one sports injury
It can be said that the injury situation affects men and women emotionally in a quite similar way, in contrast to some previous research in the field of sports, but in agreement with other studies that have analyzed the way to deal with the stress related to the injury
Summary
Sports injuries are inherent to the sports practice, and are quite familiar to the majority of athletes, as shown by numerous epidemiological studies [1,2]. In addition to the economic and sportive consequences for the clubs, injuries may produce other consequences for the player (need for special practices, loss of fitness, time spent as a substitute, etc.), added to the associated cognitive and emotional reactions (pain, duel, sadness, anger, fear) that may negatively influence their well-being [6,7]. Considering it globally, sports injuries are the most common cause of abandonment in all kinds of sports careers [8]
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