Pain in Competitive Athletes With Physical Disabilities and Techniques for Its Management

Completed

• Conditions: Athletic Injuries; Physical Disability; Chronic Pain
• Interventions: Other: Qualitative study. Pain in competitive athletes with physical disabilities and techniques for its management.

• Registration Number: NCT05647031
• Lead Sponsor: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Brief Summary

There are psychosocial factors that affect pain, and therefore, psychological intervention techniques have been added to its usual pharmacological and physiotherapeutic treatment. Despite the abundant evidence that addresses psychosocial factors as clear mediators in the perception of pain, the use of psychological techniques for pain management in competitive athletes, and more especially in competitive athletes with physical disabilities, is scarce. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the perception of high-level competitive athletes with physical disability and sports agents (coaches, physiotherapists and psychologists).

Detailed Description

Qualitative study with in-depth interviews to find out the perception of sports agents (coaches, physiotherapists and psychologists) and athletes on how pain can affect the development of the sports career and to determine what techniques are known and/or implemented by sports agents (coaches, physiotherapists and psychologists) and athletes to manage pain.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-12-18
• Primary Completion: 2021-01-16
• Study Completion: 2021-01-28
• Study First Submitted: 2022-11-21
• Status Verified: 2022-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-12-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-12-10
• Study First Posted: 2022-12-12
• Last Update Posted: 2022-12-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 21

Inclusion Criteria

For the athlete:

• Physical disability.
• Participate in high performance competition
• Aged between 15 and 55 years old;

For the sports agents:

• To exercise their profession with high performance athletes with physical disabilities

Exclusion Criteria

• Not meeting the above requirements

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
20 participants were interviewed on a voluntary basis	Qualitative study. Pain in competitive athletes with physical disabilities and techniques for its management.	A total of 20 participants were interviewed on a voluntary basis (7 competitive athletes with 17 physical disabilities, 4 physiotherapists, 5 coaches and 4 psychologists)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Perception of pain in competitive athletes with physical disabilities and techniques for its management.(Qualitative methodology).	2 months	This research focuses on the subjective reality of individuals regarding their life experiences of how pain can affect a sporting career. It was based on a relativistic ontology, situated in an overlapping phenomenological and interpretative epistemology.The organisation of the information collected was carried out with "Nuevo NVivo" text processing software. The codes extracted from the thematic analysis were entered. Followed by a thematic analysis of their content and according to the specific objectives of the study. The steps followed were those proposed by Braun and Clarke (2006). Two types of triangulation were applied (Flick, 2014): investigator and data triangulation.; Pain has a negative impact on the athlete's sporting career: directly or indirectly through the psychological consequences. Athletes perceive that support of a psychologist are performance oriented and not pain management.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain