F50
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Investigational group: n = 312 elite athletes from weight-sensitive (ballet and bodybuilding) and less weight-sensitive (racket sports, soccer and basketball) sports will be assessed four tim
Sponsors
LVR-Universitätsklinik Essen
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to 38 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: All participants should fluently speak and understand English. This study specifies on elite athletes either practicing ballet, bodybuilding, or ballgames (tennis, soccer, basketball) on a professional level, which is defined as organising their daily life around their sport or regular participation at competitions or performances. The training should have been practiced for at least 6 months with more than 300 min/week with at least moderate intensity to be considered an elite athlete. If participants meet the criteria to be considered an elite athlete and they practice one of the sports disciplines, participation in the study is possible in the Elite Athlete Group. The specification on some sport-disciplines enables sufficient large samples per sport disciplines to investigate differences between the sport disciplines. Participants are assigned to the Control Group, if they do not meet the criteria of the Elite Athletes Group. Participants from the Control Group can also exercise regularly, but with lower training load, intensity and professionalism.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: If participants meet the criteria to be considered an elite athlete but they do not practice one of the sport-disciplines, study participation is not possible.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Additional variance explanation in the eating behavior of the elite sports group by the indicators (? R² ). Veränderung im Essverhalten T0 Baseline assessment: eating behavior measurment: Eating attitudes test (EAT-26), Body-Mass-Index (BMI) T1 after 1 month: : eating behavior, eating disorder diagnostics and body measurements (EAT-26, BMI, diagnosis ICD-11) T2 after 6 months: eating behavior (EAT-26, BMI) T3 after 12 months: eating behavior (EAT-26, BMI) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| T0 Baseline investigation: Sociodemographic date, eating, nutritional and training behaviour, training quantity and intensity, training status (competition/performance plan), current weight goals, internalization of body ideals, influence of the sports context, fatigue, low energy availability, depression symptoms surveys: - Eating attitudes test (EAT-26), - Body-Mass-Index (BMI), - Brief-eating disorder in athletes questionnaire (BEDA-Q), - Muscle dysmorphic disorder inventory (MDDI), - The subscale drive for thinness of the Eating disorder inventory (Subskala EDI-3), - Profile of mood scale (POMS), - Rating of fatigue (ROF), - Low energy availability for female/male athletes (LEAF/LEAM), - Endocrine and Metabolic Responses on Overtraining Syndrome Tool (EROS-tool), - Weight Pressure in Sport (WPSM/WPSF), - Athletes’ Relationships with Training Scale (ART), - Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4), - Athlete Psychological Strain Questionnaire (APSQ) - self-developed items T1 after 1 month: Eating behavior, training quantity and intensity, current weight goals, training status (competition/performance plan), obsessive healthy eating behavior, nutritional knowledge in general and sport-specific, (body measurements, clinical interview) - Eating Disorder Examination questionnaire (EDE-Q), - ROF, - BEDA-Q - Abridged nutrition for sport knowledge questionnaire (ANSKQ), - Test for diagnosis of orthorexia, revised version (ORTO-R), - self-developed items - body composition, - waist-to-hip-ratio, - clinical interview T2 after 6 months: Eating behavior, training status (competition/performance plan), amount and intensity of exercise, current weight goals, mood, fatigue - Eat-26 - BMI - BEDA-Q, - ROF, - ART, - LEAF/LEAM Subskalen, - APSQ, - PHQ-4, - self-developed items T3 after 12 months: Eating, nutrition and training behaviour, training quantity and intensity, current weight goals, internalization of body ideal | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactAnna Julia Esser-Seraphin
LVR-Universitätsklinik Essen
Outcome results
None listed