PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Toomas Timpka
AU  - Jenny Jacobsson
AU  - Victor Bargoria
AU  - Julien D Périard
AU  - Sébastien Racinais
AU  - Ola Ronsen
AU  - Karin Halje
AU  - Christer Andersson
AU  - Örjan Dahlström
AU  - Armin Spreco
AU  - Pascal Edouard
AU  - Juan-Manuel Alonso
TI  - Preparticipation predictors for championship injury and illness: cohort study at the Beijing 2015 International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships
AID  - 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096580
DP  - 2017 Feb 01
TA  - British Journal of Sports Medicine
PG  - 271--276
VI  - 51
IP  - 4
4099  - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/4/271.short
4100  - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/4/271.full
SO  - Br J Sports Med2017 Feb 01; 51
AB  - Objectives To determine preparticipation predictors of injury and illness at a major Athletics championship.Methods A cohort study design was used. Before the 2015 International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships in Athletics, all 207 registered national teams were approached about partaking in a study of preparticipation health; 50 teams accepted. The athletes (n=957) in the participating teams were invited to complete a preparticipation health questionnaire (PHQ). New injuries and illnesses that occurred at the championships were prospectively recorded. Logistic regression analyses were performed with simple and multiple models using any in-championship injury and in-championship illness as outcomes.Results The PHQ was completed by 307 (32.1%) of the invited athletes; 116 athletes (38.3%) reported an injury symptom during the month before the championships, while 40 athletes (13%) reported an illness symptom. 20 (6.5%) of the participating athletes sustained a health problem during the championships. Endurance athletes were almost 10-fold more likely to sustain an in-championship illness than speed/power athletes (OR, 9.88; 95% CI 1.20 to 81.31; p=0.033). Participants reporting a preparticipation gradual-onset injury symptom were three times more likely (OR, 3.09; 95% CI 1.08 to 8.79; p=0.035) and those reporting an illness symptom causing anxiety were fivefold more likely (OR, 5.56; 95% CI 1.34 to 23.15; p=0.018) to sustain an in-championship injury.Summary and conclusions Analyses of preparticipation predictors of injury and illness at a major Athletics championship suggest that endurance athletes require particular clinical attention. Preparticipation symptoms causing anxiety are interesting predictors for in-championship health problems.