Examınatıon of Sports Injury Anxıety Level and Sports Injury Preventıon Awareness of Unıversıty Students Partıcıpatıng in Sports

Examınatıon of Sports Injury Anxıety Level and Sports Injury Preventıon Awareness of Unıversıty Students Partıcıpatıng in Sports

This study aimed to evaluate the concerns of university students who are involved in sports on more than one subject related to sports injuries (anxiety of losing ability, anxiety of suffering, anxiety of losing social support, etc.). In addition, in this study, the awareness of protection from sports injuries was evaluated in order to minimize sports injuries and create awareness of injury prevention, based on the idea that the athlete will be injured less with less anxiety in sports life.

Regardless of the sport branch, athletes are likely to encounter many injury stories during their active sports life. Stories of sports injuries cause anxiety in athletes. Therefore, sports injury prevention awareness is important. This study aimed to evaluate and compare the anxiety about sports injuries and sports injury prevention awareness of university students studying in different faculties and practicing regular sports. Personal Information Form, Sports Injury Anxiety Scale (SIAS) and Sports Injury Prevention Awareness Scale (SIPAS) were used. There was no difference between university students from three different faculties who participated in sports in terms of the total scores of the SIAS and SIPAS (p>0.05). It was determined that there was a significant difference between the students from three faculties in terms of the Anxiety of Losing Ability (ALA) parameter, which is one of the subscales of the SIAS (p<0.05). In pairwise comparisons between the groups, a significant difference was found between the students of health sciences and medical faculties in the subscale of the SIAS-ALA (p=0.001). University students who participated in sports from all three faculties included in the study had normal levels of anxiety about sports injuries and high levels of sports injury awareness. High sports injury awareness of students participating in sports may be an important factor for injury prevention. Low levels of anxiety may also be associated with high levels of awareness.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Volunteering to participate in the research
• To be a student in one of the Faculties of Sports Sciences, Health Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
• Participating in a regular sport branch

Exclusion Criteria:

• - Being diagnosed with a chronic disease or regular medication use
• Not being a student in one of the Faculties of Sports Sciences, Health Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
• Voluntary separation from employment
• Failure to complete the questionnaires to be applied within the scope of the study.