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sport psychology
understanding sport behaviour, and improving sport performance
exercise psychology
understanding and measuring exercise and sedentary behaviour
health psychology
psychological consequences of exercise
using exercise to change health behaviours
rehabilitation psychology
psycholgical predictors of injury, interventions to reduce injury, and process of injury recovery
Conjunctive Moderator Variables in Vulnerability and Resiliency Research: Life Stress, Social Support and Coping Skills, and Adolescent Sport Injuries
by: Ronald E. Smith, Frank L Smoll, and John T. Ptacek
Method
250 Male and 201 female high school varsity athletes age from 14-19 years old. Participated in basketball, wrestling, or gymnastics at 13 seattle area high schools.obtained data from a total of 41 teams of the three sports
Conjunctive Moderator Variables in Vulnerability and Resiliency Research: Life Stress, Social Support and Coping Skills, and Adolescent Sport Injuries
by: Ronald E. Smith, Frank L Smoll, and John T. Ptacek
Take Home Message
Social Support and coping operate in a conjunctive manner to influence the relationship between life stress and subsequenet ahtletic injury in youth athletes.
Only athletes low in both coping and social support exhibiited a significiant stress-injury relation, and in that vulnerable subgroup, negative major life events predicted up to 22% of injury occurrence scores.
Conjunctive Moderator Variables in Vulnerability and Resiliency Research: Life Stress, Social Support and Coping Skills, and Adolescent Sport Injuries
by: Ronald E. Smith, Frank L Smoll, and John T. Ptacek
Implications
Most athletic injuries are influenced mained by physical and biomechanical factors, leaving less room to be accounted for by psychological factors.
Conjunctive Moderator Variables in Vulnerability and Resiliency Research: Life Stress, Social Support and Coping Skills, and Adolescent Sport Injuries
by: Ronald E. Smith, Frank L Smoll, and John T. Ptacek
Measures and Procedure
Each of the high schools, the athletes complete a series of questionnaires in a group setting in a week prior to the beginning of the sport season. The inventories included measures of recent life events, levels of social support experienced by the athlete, and self-perceived adequacy of psychological coping skills. Injury data were then collected over the course of the season.
Moderator variables
quatntitative variable that affects the nature, the direction or the strength of a relation between an independent or predictor variable and a dependent variable
Reducing Stress
In order to prevent injuries caused by stress, the intervention should focus on alteration of the cognitive appraisal of potentially stressful events and modifying the phsyiological and attentional aspects of the stress response.
Interventions may be used to directly influence the moeerator variables under coping resources and personality factors.
The effects of a stress Management Program on Injuries and Stress Levels
by: Gretchen Kerr, Judy Goss
Rationale
If athletes were taught to better manage or cope with their stress, would the occurrence of injury be reduced?
The effects of a stress Management Program on Injuries and Stress Levels
by: Gretchen Kerr, Judy Goss
Subjects
24 voluntter gymnasts who competed nationally and internationally, 16 males from the age of 16-25 and 8 females between the age of 14 and 18 years old.
The effects of a stress Management Program on Injuries and Stress Levels
by: Gretchen Kerr, Judy Goss
Design
2 arm randomized trial
Time period of study: Time 1 - preseason and pre-intervention measures (athletic stress): Time 2 - four months after Time 1 and represented mid-season: Time 3 - four months after time 2 and represented peak season (National Championships)
Dependent Measure: Injury occurrence- any physical harm, occuring as a reuslt of training or complete absence from training.
16 sessions delivered bi-weekly ove the 8 months, each session lasted 1 hour
The effects of a stress Management Program on Injuries and Stress Levels
by: Gretchen Kerr, Judy Goss
Injury Data
Each gymnasts had at least one injury over the 8-month period of study. 40% of the injuries interfered with trianing for two weeks or less, minor severity. 35% compromise training for 8 weeks or more, most of these injuries are chronic or overuse. They accept these injries as just the way things are. 3% of the injuries were major traumatic injuries such as fractures.
The effects of a stress Management Program on Injuries and Stress Levels
by: Gretchen Kerr, Judy Goss
Take Home Message
The incidence of injury can be reduced gymnasts when negative athletic stress is reduced
Evaluaton of the effects of psychological prevention interventions on sport injuries: A meta-analysis
by: U. Traneus, A.Ivarsson, U. Johnson
Objective
The purpose was to conduct a systematic review of published articles aiming to prevent sports injuries based on psychological intervention and to perform a meta-analysis of the effects in such interventions
Evaluaton of the effects of psychological prevention interventions on sport injuries: A meta-analysis
by: U. Traneus, A.Ivarsson, U. Johnson
Prospect and Projects
The electronic databases and suitable sport psychology journals were searched for published studies. OUt of 560 screened articles, 15 were potentially eligible articls. 7 of these articles with substantional informaiton in the papers or the authors were able to provide us with data after request were included.
Evaluaton of the effects of psychological prevention interventions on sport injuries: A meta-analysis
by: U. Traneus, A.Ivarsson, U. Johnson
Conclusion
Psychological injury prevention interventions have a large effect on reducing the number of injuries in sport poulation
Effects of Relaxation and Guided Imagery on Knee Strength, Reinjury Anxiety, and Pain following Anteriror Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACL)
by: Deborah D. Cupal, Britton W. Brewer
Partcipants
30 patients who had completed ACL reconstructive surgery; no evidence of other acute lower extremity truama; expected to engage in a 6 month post-surgical rehab
Effects of Relaxation and Guided Imagery on Knee Strength, Reinjury Anxiety, and Pain following Anteriror Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACL)
by: Deborah D. Cupal, Britton W. Brewer
Measures
Re-injury Anxiety: concern for re-injury reconstructed knee once normal physical activity is resumed
Pain: subjective experience of pain
Knee Strength: Cybex isokinetic dynamometer ( computing a ratio in foot pounds of performance on the injured knee to that of the uninjured knee)
Effects of Relaxation and Guided Imagery on Knee Strength, Reinjury Anxiety, and Pain following Anteriror Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACL)
by: Deborah D. Cupal, Britton W. Brewer
Procedure
Participats were randomly assigned to either treatment, placebo, control conditions
Measure of re-injury anxiety and pain were assessed at 2 weeks and 24 post-surgery
Measures of knee strength were assessed 24 weeks post-surgery
Treatment group: 10 individual session of relaxation and guided imagery (session spaced two weeks apart over the 24 weeks) and normal course of physiotherapy
Placebo group: received attention, encouragement and support from the clinican at the sports medicine facility + normal course of physiotherapy
Contorl: followed a normal course of physiotherapy
Why does imagery work?
Psycholgoical mechanisms: personal control, motivation
Reduce stress -> better immune-inflmmatory response -> promotes tissue regeneration and repair
Effects of Relaxation and Guided Imagery on Knee Strength, Reinjury Anxiety, and Pain following Anteriror Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACL)
by: Deborah D. Cupal, Britton W. Brewer
Take Home message
Psychological-based interventions can enhance functional and related cognitive outcomes during rehabilitation
Bandura’s Model
Modeled Act -> Attention -> Retention -> Production -> Motivation -> Response
Research and Applications of Modeling in Rehab Psychology
Settings
Modeling Interventions
Outcomes
Outcome Measures
Performance - adherence, outcome, errors, form
Cognitive and Affective Psychological Responses - anxiety, self-efficacy, mood, RPE
Types of Modeling Interventions
Mastery vs Coping Models
Imagery vs Modeling as a Vicarious Experience
Self-Modeling
Mastery Models
Demonstrate errorless perfromance
Verbalize Confidence
Demonstrate positive attitude
Verbalize low task difficulty
Coping Models
Display decreasing distress as they struggle with difficulties or threats
Demonstate strategies for dealing with different situations
voice progressively self-efficacious beliefs
Approach or achieve mastery
Kulik Mahler 1987
The exposure to postoperative sensations and events through a coping model better prepares the observer by providing accurate information on which cognitive appraisal of the situation can be made
Modeling and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
by: Ralph MAddison, Harry Prapaessis, Mark Clatworthy
Modeling as a tool
Powerful instructional tool for the acquisition of motor skills, psychological responses, and behavior change in physical activity contexts
Modeling combined with instruction in coping strategies is highly effective in producing positive outcomes for adults undergoing surgery or invasive medical procedures
Modeling
An area that has received limited attention in the realm of injury rehabilitation is modeling
Flint (1991)
Examined the role of coping models compared to no models on psychological factors and functional outcomes following a rehabilitation program for ACL among ten female basketball players.
Players were assigned to watch a coping model video of peers participating in rehabilitation from ACL surger.
The coping model video showed female athletes similar in age, basketball position, and type of injury progressing through the rehabilitation process to full recovery.
Flint 1991 Psychological Milestones
At 3 weeks post-srugery athletes who watched the modelling video had greater self-efficacy than the control gorup
At 2 months post surgery the intervention group had higher perceived athletic competence
Flint 1991 Limitations
Flint study had a modest sample size and hence was underpowered.
Modeling intervention was introduced postoperatively and did not provide an indication of its benefit preoperatively.
Modeling and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
by: Ralph MAddison, Harry Prapaessis, Mark Clatworthy
Purpose
To extend the work of Flint (1991) by investigating the effectiveness of a coping model intervention to improve psychological processes and fucntional outcomes pre- and post- ACLR
ACL Reconstruction
Population suitable for continued research, because ACL disruption is one of the more common sport-related injury and is associated with an extensive period of rehabilitation (6-9 months)
Opportunity to augment traditional programmes
Modeling and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
by: Ralph MAddison, Harry Prapaessis, Mark Clatworthy
Hypotheses
Athletes who received the coping modeling video intervention would report lower preoperative anxiety and perceptions of pain and would report reater elf-efficacy for rehabilitation compared to the non-intervention group
Participants in the intervention group would show greater improvements in functional milestones (ex. range of motion, and crutch use) than those in the non-intervention group.
Modeling and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
by: Ralph MAddison, Harry Prapaessis, Mark Clatworthy
Participants
72 partcipants scheduled for ACLR recruited
30 intervention, 28 control
15-53 years of age
68% were male
Modeling and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
by: Ralph MAddison, Harry Prapaessis, Mark Clatworthy
Psychoogical Measures
Perceptions of expected pain - baseline, pre operative
Perceptions of actual pain - baseline, predischarge and 2 weeks
Anxiety- participants rated levels of state anxiety, baseline, pre-operatively and pre-discharge
Self-efficacy- Partcipants rated their confidence to perform specific tasks over increasing duration and frequency
Walk with crutches (post-op)
Walk without crutches (post-op, 2 weeks)
Perform rehabilitation exercises (post-op, 2 and 6 weeks)
Modeling and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
by: Ralph MAddison, Harry Prapaessis, Mark Clatworthy
Functional Measures
International Knee Documentation Committee Form (IKDC)
Objective component (surgeon)- knee laxity, swelling ROM
Subjective component (patient)- symptoms, difficulty performing tasks)
Basline and 6-weeks
Range of Motion - baseline, 2 and 6 weeks using a goniometer, time walking without crutches (in days)
Modeling and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
by: Ralph MAddison, Harry Prapaessis, Mark Clatworthy
Procedure
Modeling and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
by: Ralph MAddison, Harry Prapaessis, Mark Clatworthy
Modeling Intervention
A DVD was developed
Presented interviews of individuals who had undergone ACL repair
Demonstrated and verbalised increasing confidence in dealing with the operation and rehabilitation programme
Detailed various stages of the post-operative rehabilitation process
It was expected that watching the video would permit individuals to pick up relevent cues and information particular to their own stage of progression (pre-op/post op)
This information would be processed, retained, and result in decreased anxiety, perceptions of pain and increased confidence to perform rehabilitation.
Modeling and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
by: Ralph MAddison, Harry Prapaessis, Mark Clatworthy
Observation
Intervention group - better walking self efficacy pre discharge, confidence in exercise pre discharge, expected pain lowered, crutch efficacy higher, less days walking with a crutch
Objective: IKDC score was a closer to 0 (better function)
Subjective: IKDC score was higher
Modeling and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
by: Ralph MAddison, Harry Prapaessis, Mark Clatworthy
Conclusions (Psychological Measures)
Preoperative anxiety, no effect
Perceptions of expected pain, positive effect
Perceptions of actual pain, no effect
Self-efficacy measures, early effect
Modeling and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
by: Ralph MAddison, Harry Prapaessis, Mark Clatworthy
Conclusions (Function)
Crutch walking, positive effect
IKDC, positive effect
ROM, no effect
Modeling and Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
by: Ralph MAddison, Harry Prapaessis, Mark Clatworthy
Future research
The use of interactive modeling techniques in specific rehabilitation exercsies.
Non-pharmacological pain-management techniques used during pain focusing (association and disassociation) and pain reduction (relaxation training, meditation) might be presented using a modeling format
Use of modelling techniques could be employed to alter psychological variables previously shown to affect adherence behavior (ex. motivation, intention and perceived behavioral control)
Placebo
The measurable, observable, or felt improvment in health not attributable to treatment
Psychological theory- belief in the treatment or a subjective feeling of improvement
Process of treatment theory
Placebos caue the release endogenous opiods, or endorphins, that reduce pain
showing attention, care, affection etc. to the pateint/subject triggers phsyical rreactions in the boyd which reduce stresss and promote healing
Fun facts about placebos
The placebo effect has been measure in thousands of medical experiment and many doctors regulary prescribe placebos, drug companeis must show that their new drug work better than a placebo before the drugs are approved
Placebos have been shown to affect a range of health conditions
The color and of a talbet can alter the strength of its placebo affect
Bruce Moseley: Power of Placebo
Compared rehab outcomes from real surgery vs. sham surgery.
No difference between knee surgery and sham surgery, no notable difference in regards to the ability to walk
Osteoarthritis
Breakdown of cartilage in joints and arthroscopic surgery damaged cartilage is scraped or flushed out
Systematic Review & Meta Analysis: Real vs. Placebo Surgery
What are the true effects of a placebo after sugery ( internal validity was measure qualitatively by curcial appraisal)
Risk assumed omplicationw ere not lower in placebo than the intervention group
No complications following sham sugery compared to actual surgery
Systematic Review & Meta Analysis: Real vs. Placebo Surgery
Methods
Followed PRISMA Statement guidelines
PRISM- document that structures and guidees how people report these kind of systematic review with meta analsysi component
Systematic Review & Meta Analysis: Real vs. Placebo Surgery
Summary
Placebo can be feasible and is valid methodological instrument for evaluation of the fficiency of surgical inerventions
Risk with placebo which should only be used if there is a necssity
Placebos are proven beneifical and very powerful
Who experiences depression
Affects about 121 million people
13% of Americans experience major depression over the course of their lifetime
Approximately 7% suffer a major depressive disorder in any given year
Fewere than 25% of those affected have access to effective treatment
Women experience depression more than men
Leading cause of disability as measured by eyars living with disability (YLD) and the fourth leading contributor to the global burden of disease
Mood
Specific short term feeling states or emotional tones which can be either postiive or negative
Anxiety
Unpleasant feeling state and physiological reaction that occurs when fear is provoked
Affective, physiological, cognitive, behavioural aspects, AROUSAL is key
trait vs state.
Depression
State that eventuates from a perception of an important loss or the threat of such a loss
Affective, phsyiological, cognitive, behavioural aspects, characterised by avoidance, withdrawal, diminished activity
Diagnosis Depression
No biological test currently available
Established 2 core and 9 other symptoms for depression (4 psychological and 5 physical)
A person must have at least 1 core symptom and 5 or more of the other symptoms present in the same two week period within the last month
Core depression symptoms
Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day
Markedly diminished interested in pelasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day
Other depression symptoms
Feeling guilty, hopeless, and worthless
Recurring suicidal thoughts
Having trouble sleeping, either too much or too little
Experiencing appetite/weight changes
Trouble concentrating
Feeling little energy or unexplained tiredness
Agitation or slowing down of body movement
Other types of depression
Bipolar disorder-alternating episodes of emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression)
Dysthmia - mild depression symptoms that last two years or longer
Postpartum depression - a type of depression that occurs in the mother after her baby is born
Season affective disorder (SAD) - amajor depression that occurs during season with low sunlight
Understanding depression: co-existing conditions
Anxiety disorders
Alcohol and/or substance abuse
Heart disease
Stroke
Cancer
HIV/AIDS
Diabetes
Parkinson’s disease
Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock & Erbaugh, 1961)
Used to asses presence and intensity of depressive symptoms in psychiatric populations
Self report
21 items
Symtpoms & attitudes common to depression
Scored 0-3 for intensity
Summed to give total score
<10 none/minimal depression
10-18 mild/moderate depression
19-29 moderate/severe depression
30-63 severe depression
Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (Radloff, 1977)
Used to asess presnece and intesity of depressive symtpoms in the general population
Self report
20 items
6 domains of symptoms
Scored 0-3
Summed to give total socre
>= 16 =depression
Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (Hedlung & Vieweg, 1979)
Self Report
21 items
Scored 0-4
Depressed mood, feelings of guilt, suicide, insomnia, work and activites, psychomotor retardation, agitation, anxiety, libido, hypochrondiasis, loss of weight, insight, diurnal, paranoid, obsessional and compulsive symptoms
Causes of depression
not fully known
combination of genetics, biolgoic, and environmental, and personal factors at work
Seratonin
In some people who are severely depressed, receptors may be insensitive to seroonin, causing their response to its release to be inadequate. Message mgiht be weakend if the originating cell pumps out too little of the serotonin neurotransmitter or if an overly efficient reuptake mops up too much before the molecules have the chance to bind to the receptors on other neuros
Any of these system faults could signifcantly affect mood
Benefits of keeping serotonin working
Keeping serotonin at levels that allow communication between nerve cells strengthen circuits to the brain which regulate mood
Inflammation in the brain
Inflmmation is the body’s immune response to infection and trauma
One theory is that depressed patients may have been exposed to an infection or trauma, and their brain has yet to cool off from the experience
Brain Atrophy
Depression can be associated with the loss of volumen in parts of the brain, namely the hippocampus, which belongs to the limbic system, and is important in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory. The most severe the depression, the greater the loss of brain volume
Mood-LInked Responses in Medial Prefrontal cortex Predict Relapse in Patients with Recurrent Unipolar Depression
by: Norman Farb, Adam Anderson, Richard Boch, Zindel Segal
Design and Results
Using MRI, reaeraches presented 16 formerly depressed patinets with sad movie clips while taking pictures of their brain activity.
Over the next year and 9 of the 16 patients relapsed into depression. The researchers compared the brain activity of relapsing patients against those who remained healthy and against another gorup of people who had never been depressed.
Relapsing patients showed more activity in a rontal region of the brain known as the medial prefrontal gyrus.
Responses in this front region were also linked to higher rumination scores, and the tendency to think obsessively about negative events
Mood-LInked Responses in Medial Prefrontal cortex Predict Relapse in Patients with Recurrent Unipolar Depression
by: Norman Farb, Adam Anderson, Richard Boch, Zindel Segal
Implications
For a person with ahistory of epression, using the frontal brain’s ability to analyze and interpret sadness may actually be an unhealthy reaction that can perpetuate the chronic cycle of depression
Neuroinflammation
PET scans use a radiopharmaceutical that binds (high or mixed affinity binding) to the translocator protein (TSPO) in microglia cells. Level of protein is increased in activated microglia cells = elevated translocator protein density
Microglia
Type of glial cell that are the residnet macrophages of the brain and spinal cord, and thus act as the first and main form of active immune defense in the central nervous system (CNS)
Macrophages
Type of white blood cell that engulfs and digests cellular debris, foreign substances, microbes
Setiawan Study: Translocator Protein Density
Design and Participants
Design: case-control
Participants: 20 patients with a major depressive episode (MDE) secondary to major depressive disorder and 20 healthy controls
Setiawan Study: Translocator Protein Density
Implications
Brain inflmmation, and more specifically microglia activation is implication in major depressive episode
Unable to determine whether the neuroinflammation occurs before depression or because of it
Suggests that treatments should be designed to reduce microglia activation in depressive patients
Depression and white matter of the brain
The CNS has two kinds of tissue: grey matter and white matter, grey matter, which has a pinkish-grey color in the living brain, contains the cell bodies, dendrites and axon terminals of neurons, so it is where all synapses are. White matter is made of axons connecting different parts of grey matter to each other
Depression has been shown to alter the strucutre of the brain’s white matter, and underpins brain function
Genetics depression
Depression tends to run in families, so researches believe that certain genes may be associated with developing it
If someone has a parent or sibling with major depression, that person probably has a 2 or 3 times greater risk o developing depression compared with the average persion
Genetics (Capsi et al. 2003)
Researchers at Wisconsin and Otago anayzed the type of 5-HTT gene carried by 847 adults (5-HTT gene helps regulat serotonin)
2 forms of the 5-HTT gene, the long and the short. An individual can inherit two copies of the long form, two fo the short, or one of each
Short version of 5-HTT is not as effective in controlling the serotonin flow as the long version
Researchers focused on subjects who had traumatic life events over a 5 year period
Patients with at least one copy of the short form of 5-HTT were moer at risk of depression
Health Psychology
Psychological consequences of treatment (exercsie)
Using treatment (exercise) to change other health behaviours
Distribution
Relates to the frequency and patterns of disease occurrence in a population
Prevalence
How often the disease occurs
Incidence/occurrence
Rate of new disease or health events
Epidemiological Research
Observational not experimental
Why is Epidemiological Research Important
Virtually the only way in which a quantitative understanding of the exposure-disease relationship can be obtained
Types of Epidemiologic Study Designs
Analytical, case control, cohort
Analytical Study Designs
Designed to test specific hypotheses regarding casual links between various exposures and mortality and incidence outcomes using purely observational methods
Analytical: cohort studies
Whatever the topic, a group of individuals is identified and watched to see what events befall them