脑震荡可能会加剧职业冰球运动员的抑郁和倦怠

MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 -- Repeated concussions dramatically increase a hockey player’s risk of depression and burnout, a new study warns.Hockey players who’d suffered three or more concussions had twice the risk of depression symptoms than whose who’d never had a concussion, researchers found.They also faced three and a half times the risk of burnout symptoms, results showed.Concussion caused these effects in both male and female players, the researchers noted.“Other studies have shown that women experience more short-term symptoms after a concussion than men, but it was interesting that the link between concussion and heightened prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety and burnout was equally strong for both sexes,” said lead researcher Mitchell Andersson, a doctoral student in psychiatry at Lund University in Sweden.“This might indicate that the long-term neuropsychiatric recovery process is more similar in men and women than the short-term process,” Andersson added in a university news release.For the study, researchers surveyed nearly 650 active hockey players in Sweden’s top hockey divisions.They found that more than 1 in 4 men and nearly 1 in 5 women reported having suffered three or more concussions.Both men and women had a higher risk of depression if they’d suffered repeated concussions, researchers found.Athletes with at least three concussions were also 3.5 times more likely to develop burnout as those with none, and twice as likely as those who’d had one or two concussions, researchers found.Burnout symptoms included exhaustion, stress, difficulty concentrating, irritability, problems performing under pressure and sleep disturbances, researchers said.The study also found that hockey players of both genders report drinking alcohol at hazardous levels, An.

2024年10月28日，星期一——一项新的研究警告说，反复脑震荡会大大增加曲棍球运动员抑郁和倦怠的风险。研究人员发现，经历过三次或三次以上脑震荡的曲棍球运动员比从未经历过脑震荡的曲棍球运动员出现抑郁症状的风险高一倍。结果显示，他们还面临着三倍半的倦怠症状风险。研究人员指出，脑震荡对男性和女性运动员都产生了这些影响。瑞典隆德大学精神病学博士生、首席研究员米切尔·安德森（Mitchell Andersson）说：“其他研究表明，女性脑震荡后的短期症状比男性多，但有趣的是，脑震荡与抑郁、焦虑和倦怠症状的高发率之间的联系对两性都同样强烈。”。安德森在一份大学新闻稿中补充道：“这可能表明，男性和女性的长期神经精神康复过程比短期过程更为相似。”。在这项研究中，研究人员调查了瑞典顶级曲棍球赛区近650名活跃的曲棍球运动员。他们发现，超过四分之一的男性和近五分之一的女性报告曾遭受过三次或三次以上的脑震荡。研究人员发现，如果男性和女性反复遭受脑震荡，他们患抑郁症的风险都会更高。研究人员发现，至少有三次脑震荡的运动员发生职业倦怠的可能性是没有脑震荡的运动员的3.5倍，是有一次或两次脑震荡的运动员的两倍。研究人员表示，倦怠症状包括疲惫、压力、注意力不集中、易怒、压力下表现不佳和睡眠障碍。该研究还发现，曲棍球运动员的性别报告饮酒处于危险水平。