THE RELATIONSHIP OF MEDICAL AND SOCIAL PREDICTORS OF DISADAPTATION AND INDICATORS OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG FORMER ATHLETES DEPENDING ON THE LEVEL OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

• Main Authors: Irina Victorovna Fedotova, Mikhail Evgenyevich Statsenko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Science and Innovation Center Publishing House 2015-12-01
• Series: Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
• Subjects: health and social predictors of disadaptation; former athletes; indicators of quality of life; level of physical activity
• Online Access: http://journal-s.org/index.php/sisp/article/view/7910
• ISSN: 2218-7405

<p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US">Negative aspects of post-professional adaptation and indicators of quality of life among former athletes with various level of physical activity are analysed in the work. We conducted a survey of 456 former athletes of high qualification categories of cyclic and acyclic sports. A special author’s questionnaire to study the basic medical and social factors of disadaptive disorders among former athletes was used. According to the results of the survey we formed two groups depending on the level of physical activity. Quality of life was studied using a questionnaire MOS SF-36. There were significant correlations between predictors of medical and social disadaptation and the level of quality of life, depending on the mode of the physical activity among former athletes. Timely evaluation of the social dimension of disadaptation and level of quality of life allows you to create a system of medico-social monitoring and to provide a successful adaptation to the completion of the sports career. The necessity of maintaining a high level of athletes’ physical activity at an early post-sport period with a gradual decrease in stress after the cessation of intensive training and competitive activity is established.</p>