TY - JOUR
T1 - French Athletics Stakeholders' Perceptions of Relevance and Expectations on Injury Prevention
AU - Edouard, Pascal
AU - Ruffault, Alexis
AU - Bolling, Caroline
AU - Navarro, Laurent
AU - Martin, Simon
AU - Depiesse, Frédéric
AU - Oestergaard Nielsen, Rasmus
AU - Verhagen, Evert
N1 - Funding Information: Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Dr. Callum Browstein (Univ Lyon, UJM-Saint-Etienne, Inter-university Laboratory of Human Movement Biology, EA 7424, F-42023, Saint-Etienne, France) for his contribution to this project Publisher Copyright: © 2022. Thieme. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This study aimed to explore how stakeholders in athletics perceive the relevance of injury prevention, determine their communication preferences, and describe their expectations regarding injury prevention. We conducted a cross-sectional study using an exploratory online survey with high-level athletes (i. e. listed by the French ministry of sports), non-high-level athletes (i. e. all competitive level except high-level athletes), coaches, and health professionals licensed with the French Federation of Athletics. The survey was composed of three parts regarding stakeholder's characteristics (4 questions), perceived relevance (2 questions), communication preferences and expectations (3 questions) towards injury prevention. There were 2,864 responders to the survey. Almost all responders found that injury prevention is relevant (97.7% [95% CI 97.0% to 98.2%]), without any significant differences in the distribution between stakeholders' age, experience and sex (p >0.05). About three-quarters of the stakeholders preferred to find injury prevention information on a website (77.4%) without significant differences between stakeholders' categories (p >0.05); other media to find injury prevention information was chosen by less than 50% of responders. Expectations about injury prevention were mainly explanations, advice and tips about injury knowledge, management and prevention, based on expert opinion and/or scientific research. In conclusion, these results confirm that injury prevention is a challenge shared by numerous stakeholders in athletics, within France, and provide some orientation on how and what information to disseminate to these stakeholders.
AB - This study aimed to explore how stakeholders in athletics perceive the relevance of injury prevention, determine their communication preferences, and describe their expectations regarding injury prevention. We conducted a cross-sectional study using an exploratory online survey with high-level athletes (i. e. listed by the French ministry of sports), non-high-level athletes (i. e. all competitive level except high-level athletes), coaches, and health professionals licensed with the French Federation of Athletics. The survey was composed of three parts regarding stakeholder's characteristics (4 questions), perceived relevance (2 questions), communication preferences and expectations (3 questions) towards injury prevention. There were 2,864 responders to the survey. Almost all responders found that injury prevention is relevant (97.7% [95% CI 97.0% to 98.2%]), without any significant differences in the distribution between stakeholders' age, experience and sex (p >0.05). About three-quarters of the stakeholders preferred to find injury prevention information on a website (77.4%) without significant differences between stakeholders' categories (p >0.05); other media to find injury prevention information was chosen by less than 50% of responders. Expectations about injury prevention were mainly explanations, advice and tips about injury knowledge, management and prevention, based on expert opinion and/or scientific research. In conclusion, these results confirm that injury prevention is a challenge shared by numerous stakeholders in athletics, within France, and provide some orientation on how and what information to disseminate to these stakeholders.
KW - communication
KW - implementation
KW - injury risk reduction
KW - knowledge translation
KW - track and field
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85135767769&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1843-6533
DO - https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1843-6533
M3 - Article
C2 - 35508199
SN - 0172-4622
VL - 43
SP - 1052
EP - 1060
JO - International Journal of Sports Medicine
JF - International Journal of Sports Medicine
IS - 12
ER -