Afrassiabian Kian-Taj Claire, Mahato Bisundev, Vieux Ulrick, Palekar Nikhil
Department of Psychiatry, Castle Point VA Medical Center, Wappingers Falls, NY, United States.
Department of Psychiatry, Garnet Health Medical Center-Catskills, Harris, NY, United States.
Front Sports Act Living. 2025 Apr 17;7:1563370. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1563370. eCollection 2025.
When a skill is lost, this can impact a person's career and psychological wellbeing. As this is the case with the yips, preventing, treating, and curing them is important. This study was prompted by the limited information available on the yips, specifically regarding etiologies. The intent of this study was to utilize surveys with both a medical review of systems and psychological questioning to identify commonalities in afflicted players. This could then provide considerations of the causes and guide future research.
The study recruited experienced golfers for in-person surveys and stroke demonstrations from January 26, 2019 to March 28, 2020. The analyses included statistical methods and discussion. These methods included Yates' chi-squared test and Fisher's exact test targeted toward smaller sample sizes.
Finding participants was difficult and resulted in a small sample size ( = 14). The study had 4 participants with the yips and 10 controls. Statistical methods for small sample sizes found few associations. However, Fisher's exact test showed negative associations between the yips and sore throats ( = 0.0050), fever ( = 0.0150), and physical trauma ( = 0.0150). Yates' chi-squared test also found significance for fever ( = 0.0328), sore throat ( = 0.0105), and physical trauma ( = 0.0328). Qualitative data were also highlighted in the study, including tabulating the treatments tried and the outcomes of the participants.
The yips cause problems, especially for those who have invested significant time into perfecting a skill. Continued research is warranted to elucidate the causes and effective treatments.
当一项技能丧失时，这可能会影响一个人的职业和心理健康。由于颤抖症就是这种情况，预防、治疗和治愈它很重要。本研究是由关于颤抖症的可用信息有限，特别是关于病因的信息所引发的。本研究的目的是利用包含系统医学检查和心理询问的调查问卷，来识别受影响球员的共性。这进而可以为病因的考量提供依据并指导未来的研究。
该研究在2019年1月26日至2020年3月28日期间招募有经验的高尔夫球手进行面对面调查和击球示范。分析包括统计方法和讨论。这些方法包括针对较小样本量的耶茨卡方检验和费舍尔精确检验。
找到参与者很困难，导致样本量较小（n = 14）。该研究有4名患有颤抖症的参与者和10名对照组。针对小样本量的统计方法发现几乎没有关联。然而，费舍尔精确检验显示颤抖症与喉咙痛（p = 0.0050）、发烧（p = 0.0150）和身体创伤（p = 0.0150）之间存在负相关。耶茨卡方检验也发现发烧（p = 0.0328）、喉咙痛（p = 0.0105）和身体创伤（p = 0.0328）具有显著性。该研究还突出了定性数据，包括列出尝试的治疗方法和参与者的结果。
颤抖症会引发问题，尤其是对于那些投入大量时间完善一项技能的人。有必要继续进行研究以阐明病因和有效的治疗方法。
