- Title
- Measuring children's self-reported sport participation, risk perception and injury history : Development and validation of a survey instrument
- Creator
- Siesmaa, Emma; Blitvich, Jennifer; White, Peta; Finch, Caroline
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/43474
- Identifier
- vital:3843
- Identifier
- ISSN:1440-2440
- Identifier
- http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2010.04.006
- Abstract
- 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.
- Relation
- Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Vol. 14, no. 1 (2011), p. 22-26; http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- © 2010 Sports Medicine Australia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Children; Reliability; Risk perception; Sports injury; Survey; Validity; Child; Human; Normal human; Perception; Questionnaire; Risk; Self report; Sport injury; Test retest reliability; Validation study; 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; 1116 Medical Physiology; 1117 Public Health and Health Services
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