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The Health of Competitive Fitness Athletes

NCT03007459 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 47

Last updated 2018-03-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Fitness athletes emphasize the value of staying lean, muscular and defined, and motivates and inspires followers through social media. We want to study the effect of such lifestyle on selected aspects of psychological and physical health in female fitness athletes, and compare the outcomes to a healthy, physically active female population.

Conditions

  • Resting Metabolic Rate
  • Bone Mineral Density, Low, Susceptibility to
  • Body Image
  • Perfectionism
  • Depression
  • Eating Disorder
  • Exercise-Related Amenorrhea
  • Exercise Addiction
  • Binge Eating
  • Dietary Amenorrhea
  • Dietary Deficiency

Interventions

OTHER

Psychological health

Observing and measuring baseline, and changes in, psychological health through a fitness contest preparation period

OTHER

Physiological health

Observing and measuring baseline, and changes in, physiological health through a fitness contest preparation period

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Dairy Council

    collaborator OTHER

  • Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jorunn K Sundgot-Borgen, Professor · Professor

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-11-30
Primary Completion
2017-11-30
Completion
2017-12-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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Diseases

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