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Establishment and operation of a local government recreation policy advisory board within a regional centre

- Payne, Warren, Ruyg, Sharon, Swan, Judy

  • Authors: Payne, Warren , Ruyg, Sharon , Swan, Judy
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at Who's looking after the bush?, Rockhampton, Australia : p. 142-149
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  • Description: This paper was one of the first to explore the potential for community advocacy strategies to be formally integrated into local government sport and recreation decision making. In this way it examined the barriers, facilitators and tensions that affect the integration of community advocacy groups into local government structures.
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  • Description: 2003002924

Individual risk management strategies in basketball and hockey

- Otago, Leonie, Swan, Judy, Plaisted, Vicki

  • Authors: Otago, Leonie , Swan, Judy , Plaisted, Vicki
  • Date: 2005
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at 2005 Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport, Fifth National Physical Activity Conference, Fourth National Sports Injury Prevention Conference : Promoting Innovation, measuring success, Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, Victoria : 13th-16th October 2005
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  • Description: In Australia, the vast majority of sport is played at the community level rather than at an elite level. This paper will explore the congruence of participants’ beliefs about various aspects of sports injury at the community level and their injury prevention (IP) practices. The results of the study will help to direct our efforts as injury prevention researchers and practitioners in the field. The study used survey data of 165 basketball and hockey players to explore attitudes to injury prevention using the health belief model. The study explored the benefits and barriers to injury prevention strategies such as the use of mouthguards, shin pads, taping/bracing and warming-up and cooling-down. Hockey players felt that they were significantly more susceptible to injury than basketball players. The perception of benefits and barriers as factors in injury prevention use was significantly different between the groups. Hockey players demonstrated more positive attitudes to IP use and this is borne out in their behaviours. The significant predictor of IP usage in basketball games was the number of injuries sustained. The Health Belief Model does not appear to be useful in predicting IP use in basketball. It may be possible to influence the uptake of IP use in basketball by incorporating educational programs which relate the realistic potential for individuals to be injured. In hockey, perceived barriers were the most important predictors of IP gear use, with barriers to mouthguard use being significant. The more positively participants viewed mouthguards, the more IP strategies they employed overall.
  • Description: 2003003329

The risk management knowledge of basketball coaches and their influence on the injury prevention strategies of their players

- Otago, Leonie, Swan, Judy, Ramage, Steven

  • Authors: Otago, Leonie , Swan, Judy , Ramage, Steven
  • Date: 2005
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at 2005 Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport, Fifth National Physical Activity Conference, Fourth National Sports Injury Prevention Conference : Promoting Innovation, measuring success, Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, Victoria : 13th-16th October 2005
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  • Description: This study examined coach influence on players to use injury prevention (IP) measures and whether coaching accreditation influences a coach’s knowledge of injury prevention. Twenty-seven coaches were surveyed in a face to face interview. A total of 132 players completed surveys with approximately one half being in teams with a coach. The researchers also observed games and noted IP measures before and after games. Twenty of the coaches had completed a coach accreditation course with 70.3% believing that they had good or better knowledge of IP measures. Over 50 % of coaches obtained their knowledge from playing and only 18.5% of coaches believed that their knowledge came from coach accreditation courses. Three-quarters of the coaches believed that they had a major role in IP education of players and they believed that warm-up was the major IP measure which reduced the risk of injury. Only 29.6% of coaches indicated that they would not allow an injured player to compete in a game. A total of 65.9% of players indicated that they warmed up prior to a game however 100% warmed-up on observation although the maximum warm-up observed was 3 minutes. The coach was the major influence (42.5%) on players’ IP use. Players believed that the coach encouraged warmups the most followed by cool-downs however no team cooled-down after games. Coached players displayed more IP strategies than players without a coach. This study highlighted the importance of coaches in IP and efforts must be made to include IP information in accreditation courses.
  • Description: 2003003336
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