- Title
- Identifying context-specific competencies required by community Australian Football sports trainers
- Creator
- Donaldson, Alex; Finch, Caroline
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/36704
- Identifier
- vital:5435
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2011-090073
- Identifier
- ISSN:0306-3674
- Abstract
- Background: First-aid is a recommended injury prevention and risk management strategy in community sport; however, little is known about the sport-specific competencies required by first-aid providers. Objective: To achieve expert consensus on the competencies required by community Australian Football (community-AF) sports trainers. Study design: A three-round online Delphi process. Setting: Community-AF. Participants: 16 Australian sports first-aid and community-AF experts. Outcome measures: Rating of competencies as either ‘essential’, ‘expected’, ‘ideal’ or ‘not required’. Results: After Round 3, 47 of the 77 (61%) competencies were endorsed as ‘essential’ or ‘expected’ for a sports trainer to effectively perform the activities required to the standards expected at a community-AF club by ≥75% of experts. These competencies covered: the role of the sports trainer; the responsibilities of the sports trainer; emergency management; injury and illness assessment and immediate management; taping; and injury prevention and risk management. Four competencies (5%) were endorsed as ‘ideal’ or ‘not required’ by ≥85% of experts and were excluded from further consideration. The 26 competencies where consensus was not reached were retained as second-tier, optional competencies. Conclusions: Sports trainers are important members of on-field first-aid teams, providing support to both injured players and other sports medicine professionals. The competencies identified in this study provide the basis of a proposed two-tiered community-AF–specific sports trainer education structure that can be implemented by the peak sports body. This includes six mandatory modules, relating to the ‘required’ competencies, and a further six optional modules covering competencies on which consensus was not reached.
- Relation
- British Journal of Sports Medicine Vol. 46, no. 10 (August 2012 2012), p. 759-765; http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900; http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565907
- Rights
- Copyright BMJ Group
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 11 Medical and Health Sciences; 09 Engineering; 13 Education
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