Overuse Injury, Substance Use, and Resilience in Collegiate Female Athlete.
Chelsea L Martin, Ellen Shanley, Chris Harnish and 4 others
PMID 34395053WHAT IT FOUND
Resilience did not show a link to pain, overuse injury, or substance use among 230 female collegiate athletes.
Pain was reported by 45.0% and overuse injury by 52.0%.
Key findings
0145.0% of female collegiate athletes reported pain and 52.0% reported an overuse injury.
02Alcohol use in the past 30 days was reported by 35.1% and electronic cigarette use by 19.5%; cigarette use was 2.8% and drug use was 3.3%.
03No significant differences were found between resilience groups for pain, overuse injury, substantial overuse injury, inability to play, alcohol use, or overall substance use.
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What it does not show
The study was cross-sectional and captured data at one time point, so it cannot show whether resilience, injury, or substance use changed over time. The response rate was 38%, and collision sports were under-represented, so the sample may not reflect all female collegiate athletes. The sample was female only, so the results do not apply to male collegiate athletes. Substance-use data were self-reported through an online survey, with possible recall bias and underreporting. Missing data were high for several substance-use questions, including number of alcohol occasions 69%, occasions of getting drunk 70%, and frequency of e-cigarette, cigarette, or drug use over 70%. Resilience groups were defined using standard deviation cutoffs because no athlete normative data were available, so low, normal, and high resilience labels may not have clinical meaning. The text and table report different division counts and different overuse injury percentages, so some reported figures are not internally consistent.
Declared interests
The authors reported no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that resilience protects female collegiate athletes from overuse injury or substance use. The study found no significant differences between resilience groups for pain, overuse injury, alcohol use, or overall substance use, and it was a one-time self-report survey with missing data.