Depression Status in Sports

Abstract

Background: This study was carried out in the Sportive Medical Evaluation Center at the Complutense University in Madrid. Its major objective was to assess the prevalence of the Depression Status among professional sport men and women. Methods: The Tetradimensional structured Test for depression was used for psychometric evaluation to compare two groups of 52 high competition sport men and women, and 5O university as the referente group. Results: Study rcsults show a 25% prevalence of depression status for the high competition sport group compared to a 2% prevalence for the reference group (p= 0.00079). Conclusions: These results seem to conform the association between high competition sport practice and the occurrence of depressive status.