Hospital-treated snow sport injury in Victoria, Australia : A summary of 2003–2012
- Authors: Siesmaa, Emma , Clapperton, Angela , Twomey, Dara
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Wilderness and Environmental Medicine Vol. 29, no. 2 (2018), p. 194-202
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- Description: Introduction: To determine the incidence rate and changes over time for ice and snow sports injury in Victoria, Australia, from 2003 to 2012 and describe the most common types and causes of these injuries. Methods: Retrospective data from the Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit describing hospital admissions and emergency department presentations were extracted for the 10-year period of 2003 to 2012 for all ice- and snow-related injury. Descriptive injury data and participation-adjusted trend analyses using log-linear regression modelling of data (statistical significance, P<0.05) from the Exercise, Recreation and Sport Survey 2003 to 2010 are presented. Results: Overall, there were 7387 ice- and snow-related injuries, with a significant increase in hospital-treated snowboard injuries and a (nonsignificant) decline in hospital-treated ski injuries over the 10 years. Skiing (39%) and snowboarding (37%) had the highest incidence of hospital-treated injury, with males aged 15 to 24 years injured most frequently in both sports. Falls were the most common cause of injury in both skiing (68%) and snowboarding (78%). Conclusions: Patterns of snow sports injury in Australia during 2003 to 2012 remain similar to findings of national studies conducted decades earlier. More importantly, however, Australian injury patterns are comparable to international statistics and thus may be generalizable internationally. Head injuries, although infrequent, are associated with great injury severity due to a high frequency of hospitalization. Furthermore, research into the use of personal protective equipment and other injury prevention measures among Australian participants, particularly by young, male snowboarders, is required. Given the similar injury patterns, injury prevention measures implemented internationally could reasonably translate to an Australian setting.
Sports Injury Prevention : The Role of the Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Authors: Talpey, Scott , Siesmaa, Emma
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Strength and Conditioning Journal Vol. 39, no. 3 (2017), p. 14-19
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- Description: Prevention of sports injuries is a priority for sport stakeholders across the spectrum of training and competition. Achieving this objective requires a multidisciplinary approach with strength and conditioning coaches playing an important role in the process. When considering sports injury prevention strategies, the role of the strength and conditioning coach can extend beyond observing exercise technique and prescribing training to develop a robust and resilient athlete. This paper provides strength and conditioning coaches with a broad overview of the sports injury prevention process and outlines examples of how strength and conditioning coaches can work to promote and improve athlete safety. © 2017 National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Australian hospital admission and emergency department-reported snow sports injuries: A summary of the past decade
- Authors: Siesmaa, Emma , Finch, Caroline
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Vol. 16, no. Supplement 1 (December 2013 2013), p. e23-e24
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A systematic review of the factors which are most influential in children's decisions to drop out of organised sport
- Authors: Siesmaa, Emma , Blitvich, Jennifer , Finch, Caroline
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Sport participation: Health benefits, injuries and psychological effects p. 1-45
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- Description: Sport participation is popular among millions of children in countries throughout the world. The well-documented health benefits of children‘s sport participation are important to help reduce childhood obesity and the burdens of other associated childhood diseases. Despite efforts to promote sport participation, unfortunately involvement for some children can be short-lived with sport dropout (or attrition) rates being relatively high, particularly during adolescence. Although research investigating the area of child sport dropout began more than 30-years ago, there is still much to learn about the issue, and correspondingly it has been identified as a major concern by both sport practitioners and researchers. Whilst previous studies have uncovered some factors that distinguish children who do and do not drop out of sport, a detailed examination of the published literature is required to characterise these issues further and to identify where knowledge gaps exist more fully. This Chapter reports the results of a systematic review of existing peer-reviewed literature related to reasons why children decide to drop out of sport. The Chapter identifies and critically reviews relevant studies and provides a summary of their findings to contribute to a clearer understanding of the factors influencing child sport dropout. In doing so, it identifies potential opportunities for preventing child sport dropout and for promoting long-term sport participation by all children. Using specific inclusion and exclusion criteria associated with the defined systematic literature search strategies, few relevant studies were identified which addressed the issue of child sport dropout. Nonetheless, this review has identified prominent factors that contribute to child sport dropout, such as conflict of interests and time availability, the re-orienting of interests and the pursuit of participation in other activities. An important finding of the review is the identification of a clear gap in knowledge surrounding the impact of sport injury as a contributing factor to child sport dropout. In fact, sport injury appears to be largely overlooked and/or removed from studies that seek to determine the factors that contribute to dropout in children‘s organised sport. In light of international public health concerns about sport injury, and global strategies to increase participation in sport and other physical activities, it seems pertinent to obtain a better understanding of the true impact that sport injury has on the long-term retention of children in sport.
Factors that are most influential in children's continued and discontinued participation in organised sport: the role of injury and injury risk perceptions
- Authors: Siesmaa, Emma , Blitvich, Jennifer , Telford, Amanda , Finch, Caroline
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Sport participation: Health benefits, injuries and psychological effects p. 47-84
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- Description: Children‘s involvement in sport has increased over the past decade, with the health benefits associated with regular physical activity and, more specifically sports, now well established. Sport participation makes an important contribution to children‘s overall physical activity levels, and reduces the risks of childhood obesity and other associated childhood diseases. Although the benefits of sport participation are known and sport injury among children has become an international public health concern, it remains unclear how sport injury impacts on children‘s long-term sport involvement. This Chapter presents the detailed findings from a qualitative investigation of the key factors that influence children‘s continued sport participation, possible sport dropout and their sports choices, while exploring the potential impact that sport injury and injury risk perception has on children‘s organised sport behaviours. In this study a total of 43 children, aged 9-17 years, who were involved in an organised (after school) sport, took part in one of eight focus group discussions. Children were recruited from one of six sports (Australian football, badminton, golf, netball, soccer and swimming) and all participated at a community club or sub-elite level. Each focus group consisted of 5-6 children and each separate discussion was approximately 30-minutes duration. Focus groups were conducted until saturation of themes was obtained. Questions focused on children‘s sport participation, reasons for their continuation/discontinuation of sport and the encouragement/discouragement they received from parents. Other key factors that were discussed included injuries that children had sustained while participating and whether sport injury or child‘s perception of injury risk discouraged their participation and/or impacted on their parents‘ support of their participation. Overall, few children were concerned about the risk of injury while participating in sport. However, many children discussed not wanting to play contact sports such as Australian football, rugby or boxing, perceiving these sports as being too rough, and with an increased chance of injury. The main reasons the sport-active children reported for discontinuing their prior sport involvement were a lack of enjoyment and restrictions on their time. Children reported parents to be supportive of their participation in sport regardless of safety concerns. No instances of parents preventing child sport involvement were reported by children. The results from this study can be used to inform sporting bodies and health agencies of the sport injury and safety concerns held by children and how these impact on their choice of sporting activity, while highlighting areas that can be targeted in order to retain child participants.
Measuring children's self-reported sport participation, risk perception and injury history : Development and validation of a survey instrument
- Authors: Siesmaa, Emma , Blitvich, Jennifer , White, Peta , Finch, Caroline
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Vol. 14, no. 1 (2011), p. 22-26
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
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- Description: Despite the health benefits associated with children's sport participation, the occurrence of injury in this context is common. The extent to which sport injuries impact children's ongoing involvement in sport is largely unknown. Surveys have been shown to be useful for collecting children's injury and sport participation data; however, there are currently no published instruments which investigate the impact of injury on children's sport participation. This study describes the processes undertaken to assess the validity of two survey instruments for collecting self-reported information about child cricket and netball related participation, injury history and injury risk perceptions, as well as the reliability of the cricket-specific version. Face and content validity were assessed through expert feedback from primary and secondary level teachers and from representatives of peak sporting bodies for cricket and netball. Test-retest reliability was measured using a sample of 59 child cricketers who completed the survey on two occasions, 3-4 weeks apart. Based on expert feedback relating to face and content validity, modification and/or deletion of some survey items was undertaken. Survey items with low test-retest reliability (κ≤ 0.40) were modified or deleted, items with moderate reliability (κ=0.41-0.60) were modified slightly and items with higher reliability (κ≥ 0.61) were retained, with some undergoing minor modifications. This is the first survey of its kind which has been successfully administered to cricketers aged 10-16 years to collect information about injury risk perceptions and intentions for continued sport participation. Implications for its generalisation to other child sport participants are discussed. © 2010 Sports Medicine Australia.
The educative role of a regional newspaper : Learning to be drier
- Authors: Campbell, Coral , Smith, Erica , Siesmaa, Emma
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Journal of Adult Learning Vol. 51, no. 2 (2011), p. 269-301
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- Description: Throughout the world, people have to deal with the issues of global warming and other more direct consequences of environmental change. This paper considers how a local newspaper has an educative function in a small community in advising people of specific issues and learning how to deal with changing resources. Across the period of several months in 2009, the Buloke Times, a local newspaper in the Wimmera-Mallee region of Victoria, Australia, was scanned for articles relating to the issue of water scarcity. In the 24 editions of the paper, 68 articles of various themes were found. The articles/themes were analysed along a number of lines: frequency across time, frequency within each issue, prominence of articles and unusual events. This research paper develops an overview of the role of the newspaper and its capacity to influence and educate the people who constitute its readership.
Understanding perceptions of injury risk associated with playing junior cricket
- Authors: White, Peta , Finch, Caroline , Dennis, Rebecca , Siesmaa, Emma
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Vol. 14, no. 2 (2010 2010), p. 115-120
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
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- Description: Preventing sports injuries in children is important, but there is limited information about children's perceptions of injury risk or their injury beliefs and attitudes. This study investigated injury risk perceptions in a sample of junior sports participants across different age levels of play. Junior cricket players (n = 284, aged 8-16) completed a survey about their injury risk perceptions. Survey questions asked about players' perceived injury risk to themselves compared to cricketers in general, as well as their perceived injury risk across different playing position, ground condition, and protective equipment use scenarios. Chi-square analysis found that risk perceptions were significantly higher in U12 and U14 players for both batting and fielding compared to U16 players and that U16 players had a higher risk perception associated with bowling. Players tended to see themselves as less likely to be injured than cricketers in general and perceived there to be a high risk of injury when fielding close to the batter and a comparatively low risk of injury when fielding in the outfield. Junior players also perceived there to be a high injury risk associated with playing on hard and bumpy grounds. Despite their relatively accurate perceptions of risk and appreciation for the importance of protective equipment, junior players need continual reminding of the importance of safety strategies by coaches and others. Coaches need to inform players that fielding injuries can occur anywhere on the ground, and include skills practice accordingly. © 2010 Sports Medicine Australia.
The role of sport injury and injury risk perceptions on children's continued participation in organised sport
- Authors: Siesmaa, Emma , Finch, Caroline , Blitvich, Jennifer , Telford, Amanda
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2009 Australia Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport, Seventh National Physical Activity Conference, Sixth National Sports Injury Prevention Conference, Be Active '09, Brisbane, Queensland : 14th-17th October 2009
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- Description: Introduction: Child sport participation, both in Australia and internationally, has increased during the past decade and the health benefits associated with child sport participation are now well established. Some evidence suggests that sport participation contributes importantly to children's overall levels of physical activity, thus helping to reduce the risk of childhood obesity and associated childhood diseases. Although the benefits of sport participation are known, sport injury among children has become an international public health concern and it remains unclear how sport injury impacts children's long-term sport involvement. This research aimed to undertake a qualitative investigation of the impact of sport injury experiences and injury risk perceptions on children's on-going sport participation. Methods: Focus group discussions, each with 6–10 children who were involved in an organised (after school) sport, were conducted until saturation of themes was obtained. Children were recruited from sports including badminton, soccer, golf, swimming, dance, netball and cricket and participated at a community or sub-elite level. Each focus group session was approximately 30 min in duration. Questions focussed on children's sport participation, reasons for their continuation or discontinuation of sport involvement, the encouragement or discouragement they received from parents, any injuries they had sustained while participating and whether sport injury discouraged children or their parents from child sport participation in the future. The qualitative research software NVivo was used to analyse the discussions. Results/conclusion: Few children were concerned about the risk of sport injury while participating in sport. However, many children discussed not wanting to play sports such as football, rugby or boxing, perceiving these sports as too rough, and with increased chance of injury. The main reasons children reported for discontinuation of sport involvement were lack of enjoyment and restrictions of their time. Children reported parents to be supportive of their sport behaviours regardless of safety concerns. No instances of parents preventing child sport involvement were reported by children. This study forms part of a larger study, to determine the influence of child and parent injury perceptions on sport choice and participation. Findings will inform sporting bodies of sport injury and safety concerns held by children and their parents, highlighting areas that can be targeted in order to retain child participants.
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The sporting kids injury & drop out (SKIDO) study.
- Authors: Finch, Caroline , Siesmaa, Emma , Blitvich, Jennifer , White, Peta , Telford, Amanda
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Technical report
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