Awareness and use of the 11+ injury prevention program among coaches of adolescent female football teams
- Authors: Donaldson, Alex , Callaghan, Aisling , Bizzini, Mario , Jowett, Andrew , Keyzer, Patrick , Nicholson, Matthew
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching Vol. 13, no. 6 (2018), p. 929-938
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- Description: Coaches are essential to participant safety, particularly by implementing injury prevention programs. The evidence-based injury prevention programs developed by sports scientists will not prevent injuries in real-world sports settings if they are not properly implemented. This study investigated the knowledge and use of the highly efficacious 11+ injury prevention program among coaches of adolescent, female football teams, in Victoria, Australia. A cross-sectional online survey based on the RE-AIM framework identified that nearly half (42%) of the 64 respondents (response rate = 36%) were not aware of the 11+, and only one-third (31%) reported using it. Three-quarters (74%) of the 19 respondents who reported on the 11+ components they used, did not use the entire program. Nearly half (44%) of the 18 respondents who reported the frequency with which they used the 11+, used it less than the recommended twice a week. Barriers to implementing the 11+ included: limited awareness of the 11+; lack of knowledge about how to implement it; not having time to implement it; and believing that the 11+ does not incorporate appropriate progression. This study suggests that it is unlikely that the 11+ prevents a significant number of injuries in real-world football settings due to the lack of awareness and use among coaches. Football-governing bodies should use evidence-based strategies to raise awareness of the 11+, build coach competency to implement it, and address time-related implementation barriers that coaches experience. Coaches should keep up-to-date with injury prevention research evidence and prioritize injury prevention at training, including allocating time to implement injury prevention programs properly.
Sports injury prevention: improving the outcomes
- Authors: Finch, Caroline , Gabbe, Belinda , Lloyd, David , Cook, Jill , Young, Warren , Nicholson, Matthew , Seward, Hugh , Donaldson, Alex , Doyle, Tim , White, Peta
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sport Health Vol. 29, no. 1 (2011), p. 34-37
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565907
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- Description: In australia, the public health signifi cance of sports injuries has long been recognised with national and state-specifi c injury data collections demonstrating the magnitude of the population burden of such injuries, including their signifi cant impact on health service delivery and their potential to be associated with socio-demographic health inequalities. Moreover, health-related lifelong physical activity participation will only be sustained in the long-term if it is delivered in a safe way to minimise injury risk.
Towards a national sports safety strategy: Addressing facilitators and barriers towards safety guideline uptake
- Authors: Finch, Caroline , Gabbe, Belinda , Lloyd, David , Cook, Jill , Young, Warren , Nicholson, Matthew , Seward, Hugh , Donaldson, Alex , Doyle, Tim
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Injury Prevention Vol. 17, no. 3 (2011), p. 1-10
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565907
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- Description: Background: Limited information exists about how best to conduct intervention implementation studies in community sport settings. Research should be directed towards understanding the context within which evidence-based injury prevention interventions are to be implemented, while continuing to build the evidencebase for the effectiveness of sports injury interventions. Objectives: To identify factors that influence the translation of evidence-based injury prevention interventions into practice in community sport, and to provide specific evidence for the effectiveness of an evidence-based exercise training programme for lower limb injury prevention in community Australian football. Setting: Community-level Australian football clubs, teams and players. Methods: An exercise-based lower limb injury prevention programme will be developed and evaluated in terms of the implementation context, infrastructure and resources needed for its effective translation into community sport. Analysis of the community sports safety policy context will be undertaken to understand the barriers and facilitators to policy development and uptake. A randomised group-clustered ecological study will be conducted to compare the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance (RE-AIM) of the intervention over 2 years. Outcome Measures: The primary outcome will be evidence-based prevention guidelines that are fully supported by a comprehensively evaluated dissemination plan. The plan will detail the support structures and add-ons necessary to ensure sustainability and subsequent national implementation. Research outcomes will include new knowledge about how sports safety policy is set, how consensus is reached among sports safety experts in the community setting and how evidence-based safety guidelines are best developed, packaged and disseminated to community sport.
Sport stadia governance
- Authors: Hoye, Russell , Nicholson, Matthew
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sport Management Review Vol. 13, no. 2 (2010), p. 171-178
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- Description: This case concerns the fictional city of Urbanville, the state capital of Northern Australia, a pseudonym for one of Australia's eight States and Territories, where the State and municipal governments have decided to invest $600 M in the construction of a new sport stadium. The case explores the question of how the stadium will be governed once it has been constructed. The case outlines the key issues and challenges posed by Urbanville's existing sport stadia infrastructure; current issues among stakeholders and their use of existing stadia in Urbanville; and possible choices for the governance arrangements of the new stadium. © 2009 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand.
Alcohol Advertising During Televised Sports and Alcohol Consumption by Adolescents : Reply
- Authors: Nicholson, Matthew , Hoye, Russell
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 302, no. 5 (2009), p. 488-488
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In reply
- Authors: Nicholson, Matthew , Hoye, Russell
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 302, no. 5 (2009), p. 488
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Reducing adolescents' exposure to alcohol advertising and promotion during televised sports
- Authors: Nicholson, Matthew , Hoye, Russell
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 301, no. 14 (2009), p. 1479-1482
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Social capital and sport policies in Australia
- Authors: Hoye, Russell , Nicholson, Matthew
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Public Management Review Vol. 11, no. 4 (2009), p. 441-460
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- Description: This article analyses how the concept of social capital and related themes of social inclusion, social connectedness and community well-being manifest within sport policies of Australian state governments and how this illustrates a high degree of policy transfer among policy agencies. The article argues that government policy makers appear to have made a number of unfounded assumptions about the relationship between sport and social capital. The article concludes with a discussion of how the use of social capital in these policies illustrates a high degree of policy transfer due to institutional similarities between policy agencies and trans-state communication.