Changes in salivary stress biomarkers (hormones) level during competition in badminton and boxing athletes of Manipur

Recruiting

Conditions: Healthy athletes fit to take part in matches or bouts during competition.

Brief Summary: The study is a randomized parallel group, placebo controlled trial to understand the alteration in stress level, if any, in sportspersons due to intervention by a match or bout among elite athletes of both gender who will be participating in matches or bouts during competition of Badminton and Boxing respectively by using salivary stress biomarkers viz. cortisol, testosterone and immunoglobulin A. The study will be conducted on 176 athletes equally taken from both sport disciplines of Manipur, fulfilling, the inclusion and exclusion criteria for 15 months. The primary outcome of the project is to understand the changes in salivary biomarker levels, if any, over five testing session for study group athletes and single testing session for control group athletes. The secondary outcome of the project is to assess the physical and physiological condition of athletes during first testing session for both group of athletes by variables viz. height, weight, body fat percentage and maximum oxygen uptake. And lastly to correlate salivary biomarker level with performance.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

1)Elite Athletes of both gender are only included in the study with minimum achieved State or National level medals in their respective sport disciplines viz.
boxing and badminton or played International games of their respective sports discipline for the study.
2)Athletes with minimum 5years of advanced training history.
3)Athletes not suffering from any kind genetical disorder.
4)Athletes who didnâ€™t suffered from orthopedic injury in one year.
5)Athletes not suffering from acute illness during the time of testing.
6)Athletes who are willing to participate.
8)In case of boxing athletes, weight category range is 45-60kg to be selected thus to include light weight category boxers as Indian Boxing contingent performance as well as Manipuri athletes performance is much better within this weight category range in recent years for both genders.

Exclusion Criteria

1)Athletes with pathological findings during physical examination or laboratory testing.
2)Athletes taking artificial supplements or other related medications which may affect selected salivary biomarker concentration for the present study.
3)Athletes suffering from acute Hemolytic crisis.
4)Female athletes with pregnancy.
5)Athletes suffering from acute musculoskeletal injury limiting them from normal physical activity.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To understand the alteration in stress level, if any, in sportspersons due to intervention by a match or bout among elite athletes of both gender who will be participating in matches or bouts during competition of Badminton and Boxing respectively by using salivary stress biomarkers viz. cortisol, testosterone and immunoglobulin A.	1year 3months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Measuring of height will be done for proper understanding of physical condition of athletes of both groups.	1 year 3 months
Measuring of body weight will be done for proper understanding of physical condition of athletes of both groups.	1 year 3 months
Measuring of body fat percentage will be done for proper understanding of physical condition of athletes of both groups.	1 year 3 months
Measuring of maximal oxygen uptake viz. VO2 max will be done for proper understanding of physiological condition of athletes of both groups.	1 year 3 months

Locations (1): Regional Institute of Medical Sciences
🇮🇳
West, MANIPUR, India
Regional Institute of Medical Sciences
🇮🇳West, MANIPUR, India
Suvam Das Gupta
Principal investigator
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suvam.biochem@gmail.com