Psychosocial Factors and Sport Injuries: Meta-analyses for Prediction and Prevention

Abstract

The results support the model's suggestion that psychosocial variables, as well as psychologically, based interventions, can influence injury risk among athletes.

Healthy Practice of Female Soccer and Futsal: Identifying Sources of Stress, Anxiety and Depression

“…Indeed, the results of the study show that in the group of players, those who had suffered an injury showed significantly lower stress values than those who had not been injured, results that are not in agreement with what is found in the majority of previous studies [9,26,32], and are not predicted exclusively by the Andersen and Williams model [13,14].…”

“…This point, as seen before, is very important regarding the prevention side of the psychological interventions with injured athletes [12,38]. Furthermore, although in the Ivarsson et al [9] meta-analysis, the role of the athletes' personality traits-which could include the trait anxiety-is found to have to a marginal association with the injury rates, the current research should not overlook the influence of a key aspect, such as this.…”

“…In addition, in a very recent systematic literature review by Ivarsson et al [9], the results outline, again, the role of the stress response as the more powerful predictor of the injury rates. Perhaps, as opposed to the male players, female footballers who are injured perceived their situation as a decrease in their level of pressure and responsibility, something that may not happen while they are active in practices and, above all, in competition.…”

“…), it seems very important to determine what are the possible predictors of these injuries, and eventually, try to control them. Historically, the research in this field has been focused on the medical, physiological, and biomechanical perspectives, but during the last two decades, the role of the psychological factors as a possible cause of the injuries has been also extensively explored [9], also suggesting interdisciplinary theoretical models and practical interventions [10]. The study of the psychological factors that may affect the athlete's vulnerability to the injury has become, nowadays, some kind of paradigm in the field of sports psychology [10][11][12].…”

Psychological interventions used to reduce sports injuries: a systematic review of real-world effectiveness

“…However, both reviews excluded studies that did not provide information that would allow them to complete the targeted statistical analyses 24 25. However, in the two previous systematic reviews, studies were excluded if they were not underpinned by the model of stress and athletic injury 25. Consequently, these reviews may have excluded relevant evidence,3 and this could have implications for clinical decision-making 26…”