Ooststroom, G. van (Gabriela) (2020) The relationship between perceived neurocognitive characteristics and injury occurrence among talented open sport athletes. thesis, Sport Sciences.
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Object ives To inves tigate to what extent the scores on perceived neurocognitive comfort and distress relate to injury occurrence at the moment of testing and up to 6 months later among talented open sports athletes. Design A prospective study design with repeated measurem ents for injury occurrence. Methods One hundred and forty six talented athletes (78 males and 68 females, age: 15.4±1.4years) active in open sports (soccer: basketball:20, field hockey:15, volleyball: 15, handball:10, judo:9, korfball:7, other:4 train ing hours per week: 11.7±3.5) completed the questionnaire for perceived neurocognitive characteristics and injury occurrence at baseline One hundred and six athletes from this group (58 males and 48 females, age: 15.2±1.5years) also reported injury occurrence during follow up 6 months later. A comparison was made between injured and non injured athletes on the perceived neurocognitive comfort and distress scores using multivariate analyses of (co)variance and logistic regression analyses apply ing p 0.05. Results A main effect for injury occurrence was found at baseline (p 0.05). Lower scores on the perceived neurocognitive comfort were found among the injured athletes (26.79± c ompared to the non injured athletes (28.37± (p 0.05). When controlling for age and training hours, with gender as a fixed factor, no significant main effect for injury occurrence or an interaction effect for injury occurrence by gender was found (p 0.05). In addition no differences were found in pe rceived neurocognitive characteristics between injured and non injured athletes during follow up 6 months later (p 0.05). Conclusions The findings show a relationship between perceived neurocognitive co mfort and injury occurrence where injured athletes have lower scores than non injured athletes at baseline. Also, the results indicate that perceived neurocognitive comfort plays a role in predicting injury occurrence at baseline. Thus, perceived neurocognitive comfort should be getting more attention for injury prevention. Besid es improving weaknesses, it is also important to focus on the things that are going well to maintain the positive state du ring practice and matches However, the results were not consistent f or injuries during follow up which could be due to several limitations. Future rese arch should properly assign the constructs to the perceived neurocognitive characteristics adopt a method of injury registration that includes all open sport a thletes and consider the relevant in jury information as well as the acc ording definition.
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Elferink-Gemser, dr. M.T. and Benjaminse, A. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 20 May 2022 09:29 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2022 09:29 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3371 |
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