Hygienic assessment of risk factors for skin infections in athletes–wrestlers

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10.21668/health.risk/2016.3.06.eng
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N.Ch. Davletova, I.A. Zemlenukhin, D.S. Martykanova, S.M. Mugallimov, A.M. Akhatov

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FSBEI HE “Volga Region State Academy of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism”, 35 Universiade Village, Kazan, 420010, Russian Federation

Abstract: 

Healthy male volunteers namely 91 wrestling athletes and 52 students, who are not engaged in sports, have participated in the study, based on the informed consent and the questionnaire. It was found out that among the fighters: the majority of respondents (55 %) at least once suffered from contagious skin diseases. For the hygienic assessment of the risk factors for skin infections of wrestlers the Wallace «rule of nines» was used, which helps to estimate the square of the body exposed areas (the parts of body which are not covered with sports equipment) in various kinds of wrestling. According to the results of the study of wrestling athletes it was determined that the risk of skin infections of this group of people is higher, especially of the wrestlers engaged in professional wrestling. The number of cases of skin infections among the wrestlers-respondents is 9.5 times higher (p<0.001) than among the students not involved in professional sports. The study helped to identify main risk factors for infectious skin diseases of wrestlers in training and competitive processes: direct factors including constant contact “skin to skin” of athletes during the contest; failure to comply with the requirements for body hygiene, clean sportswear and shoes, the presence of competitors with obvious signs of infectious disease at the competitions and training sessions and indirect factors including being in a constant stress state as a result of the frequent competitions, daily training sessions, etc. The article presents systematic informing of all participants of training and competitive processed on the existing risk of skin infections in athletes and the negative consequences of their implementation.

Keywords: 
risk factors, skin infectious diseases, athletes, wrestlers, hygienic assessment, the «rule of nines», direct factors, indirect factors
Davletova N.Ch., Zemlenuhin I.A., Martykanova D.S., Mugallimov S.M., Ahatov A.M. Hygienic assessment of risk factors for skin infections in athletes–wrestlers. Health Risk Analysis. 2016, no. 3, pp. 53–60. DOI: 10.21668/health.risk/2016.3.06.eng
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