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Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Nov 16;18(22). doi: 10.3390/ijerph182212040.

Stress Impact of COVID-19 Sports Restrictions on Disabled Athletes.

International journal of environmental research and public health

Giovanni Fiorilli, Andrea Buonsenso, Nicola Davola, Giulia Di Martino, Francesca Baralla, Stefanos Boutious, Marco Centorbi, Giuseppe Calcagno, Alessandra di Cagno

Affiliations

  1. Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, v. De Sanctis 1, 86100 Campobasso, Italy.
  2. Department of Economics and Management, LUISS Guido Carli, Viale Romania32, 00197 Rome, Italy.
  3. Department of Motor, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Lauro de Bosis Square, 15, 00197 Rome, Italy.
  4. Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15772 Athens, Greece.

PMID: 34831791 PMCID: PMC8619846 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182212040

Abstract

The stress impact of COVID-19 restrictions has put the adapted sports community at an unprecedented level of emergency. The self-report Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) questionnaire was administered to assess the level of psychological distress and emotive reactions such as intrusion (INT), avoidance (AV) and hyperarousal (HYP) following training and competitions suspension within a sample of Italian disabled athletes. A total of 146 self-selected volunteers were included in this study: 73 disabled athletes (aged 42.11 ± 13.70) and 73 athletes (aged 40.23 ± 13.73) who served as the control group. Only 8.22% of the disabled participants vs. 30.14% of athletes were affected by subjective distress. MANOVA showed significant differences in IES-R subjective distress for age, where the emerging adults had a higher level of stress than adults (

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; adapted sport; psychological distress; well-being

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