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| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 784249 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | International Scholarly Research Notices |
| Volume | 2013 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
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Can written disclosure reduce psychological distress and increase objectively measured injury mobility of student-athletes? A randomized controlled trial. / Duncan, Elaine; Gidron, Yori; Lavallee, David.
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T1 - Can written disclosure reduce psychological distress and increase objectively measured injury mobility of student-athletes? A randomized controlled trial
AU - Duncan, Elaine
AU - Gidron, Yori
AU - Lavallee, David
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Injured students-athletes took part in a randomized controlled trial to test whether written disclosure could reduce psychological distress and improve injury mobility. Writing took place alongside prescribed physical rehabilitation and consisted of three 20- minute writing sessions, once a week for three consecutive weeks. Participants in the experimental injury-writing group (푛 = 25) followed a structured form of written disclosure, called the guided disclosure protocol (GDP). They firstly, wrote about the onset of their injury in a chronological manner, secondly, they explicitly labelled their emotions and described the impact of the injury, finally they wrote about future coping and psychological growth. Controls(푛 = 21)wrote about nonemotional and noninjury related topics. In addition to self-report measures, a physiotherapist, blind to experimental condition, assessed mobility at the injury site. Although self-report indices remained unchanged, the GDP group evidenced a significant improvement in injury mobility compared to controls.
AB - Injured students-athletes took part in a randomized controlled trial to test whether written disclosure could reduce psychological distress and improve injury mobility. Writing took place alongside prescribed physical rehabilitation and consisted of three 20- minute writing sessions, once a week for three consecutive weeks. Participants in the experimental injury-writing group (푛 = 25) followed a structured form of written disclosure, called the guided disclosure protocol (GDP). They firstly, wrote about the onset of their injury in a chronological manner, secondly, they explicitly labelled their emotions and described the impact of the injury, finally they wrote about future coping and psychological growth. Controls(푛 = 21)wrote about nonemotional and noninjury related topics. In addition to self-report measures, a physiotherapist, blind to experimental condition, assessed mobility at the injury site. Although self-report indices remained unchanged, the GDP group evidenced a significant improvement in injury mobility compared to controls.
U2 - 10.1155/2013/784249
DO - 10.1155/2013/784249
M3 - Article
VL - 2013
JO - International Scholarly Research Notices
JF - International Scholarly Research Notices
SN - 2356-7872
M1 - 784249
ER -