Mental Health, Addictions and Biomarkers in High Athletes Performance

Sponsor

Cardenal Herrera University (Other)

Overall Status

Recruiting

CT.gov ID

NCT04842461

Collaborator

Villarreal CF (Other)

Enrollment

Locations

21.5

Anticipated Duration (Months)

Patients Per Site

1.4

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Sport is a privileged area to promote socialization and health values, such as companionship; a healthy lifestyle; cooperation to achieve common goals, and justice, rejecting unjustified advantages in competition. The concept of fair play is on which the development of those values pivots. From a holistic perspective, it is possible to define fair play, not only as a way to participate but also as a way of projecting people in life with values, assuming a set of behaviors that enhance a healthy and respectful sporting experience with opponents, the companions, the spectators, the referees and all the agents that take part in the sport practice.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Mental Disorder Anxiety Depression Substance Abuse Pathological Gambling

Detailed Description

Since 2018, joint actions have been carried out with the Villarreal de Fútbol Club, within the framework of the ENDAVANT agreement. Within these actions, it is proposed to develop different lines of research on sport and health. Within these lines, one of special relevance is that related to the risk of consumption of illicit substances and / or behavioral addictions, in elite athletes, since they are subjected to intense training days and stress situations derived from the demands of performance of professional competitive activity. On the other hand, recently published behavioral studies show that athletes who practice non-contact sports have a greater capacity to identify and assess emotions than athletes who practice contact sports and than those who practice contact sports show higher levels of physical aggression or verbal, and hostility or anger, than athletes who practice individual and non-contact sports.

Study Design

Study Type:

Observational [Patient Registry]

Anticipated Enrollment :

60 participants

Observational Model:

Case-Control

Time Perspective:

Prospective

Official Title:

Presence of Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder as Well as Genetic Biomarkers and the Inhibition-prepulse Endophenotype in Elite Athletes

Actual Study Start Date :

Oct 15, 2020

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Mar 10, 2021

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

Jul 31, 2022

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Common drugs [2 years]
Describe the consumption of common drugs in elite athletes.
Identify other mental disorders [2 years]
Identify other mental disorders differents than addictions and psychopathy in elite athletes.
Explore the consumption of new psychoactive substances [2 years]
Explore the consumption of new psychoactive substances in elite athletes
Pathological gambling [2 years]
Describe the study of behavioral addictions and video game addiction in elite athletes.
Mental disorders [2 years]
Describe the presence of psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder
Genetic biomarkers [2 years]
Describe genetic biomarkers endophenotype in elite athletes.
Dopping [2 years]
Describe new dopping substances in elite atheletes.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years to 40 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Inclusion Criteria:

active athletes in the elite soccer competition from the Villarreal CF, who agree to be included in the study by signing an informed consent and who have a health profile made by the club's Medical Service.