{"id":381,"date":"2017-11-28T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/?p=381"},"modified":"2017-11-28T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:00:56","slug":"endurance-athletes-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/2017\/11\/28\/endurance-athletes-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Endurance Athletes Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Volunteer to take part in a study looking at the \u201cEffect of a mouth spray on Upper Respiratory Tract Illness (URTI) symptoms in Endurance Athletes&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Endurance athletes seem to pick up coughs and colds (URTIs) quite frequently, especially during periods with high training volumes. We therefore wish to monitor endurance athletes\u2019 illness (URTI) reports and also test whether a mouth spray product can reduce the occurrence or duration of URTI symptoms in athletes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are looking for:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Well trained runners\/cyclists\/triathletes (or any other endurance sport)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Who train at least 4 times per week<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 With at least 3 years of training history<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Males<\/strong> and <strong>females<\/strong> over the age of 18<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For this 3-month monitoring study you will be asked to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Record weekly illness symptoms<\/li>\n<li>Record training over the study period (via questionnaire)<\/li>\n<li>Use a commercially-available mouth spray product regularly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You would also need to be available to start the study in December 2017 at the latest<\/p>\n<p><strong>You will <u>receive \u00a3100<\/u> to compensate you for your time and effort<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested and would like more information please contact Glen Davison email: gd207@kent.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p>Phone: (01634) 888994<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteer to take part in a study looking at the \u201cEffect of a mouth spray on Upper Respiratory Tract Illness (URTI) symptoms in Endurance Athletes&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/2017\/11\/28\/endurance-athletes-wanted\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentsportsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}