A national COVID-19 quarantine survey and its impact on the Italian sports community: Implications and recommendations

Giovanni Fiorilli, Elisa Grazioli, Andrea Buonsenso, Giulia Di Martino, Tsopani Despina, Giuseppe Calcagno and Alessandra di Cagno

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 3, 1-14

Abstract: The outbreak of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) created an international public health emergency, challenging the psychological resilience of the general population. Regarding this matter, a web-based survey was performed. Data were collected from the following 1,668 self-selected volunteers: 800 athletes (28.30 ± 10.93 years old); 558 coaches (36.91 ± 11.93 years old); and 310 sports managers (42.07 ± 13.38 years old). To assess the level of psychological stress, an Impact of the Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) questionnaire was used. The results indicated that 34.4% of the participants who were interviewed were affected by subjective distress while 26.4% rated their psychological impact from the sports activity interruption as severe. Separated one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests showed significant differences in the IES-R total score (TS), indicating that the level of stress in terms of gender revealed that women were more stressed than men (p = 0.000), for “sports roles” in which the manager and coaches were more stressed than the athletes (p

Date: 2021
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