French Athletics Stakeholders' Perceptions of Relevance and Expectations on Injury Prevention

Pascal Edouard; Alexis Ruffault; Caroline Bolling; Laurent Navarro; Simon Martin; Frédéric Depiesse; Rasmus Oestergaard Nielsen; Evert Verhagen

doi:10.1055/a-1843-6533

French Athletics Stakeholders' Perceptions of Relevance and Expectations on Injury Prevention

Pascal Edouard^*, Alexis Ruffault, Caroline Bolling, Laurent Navarro, Simon Martin, Frédéric Depiesse, Rasmus Oestergaard Nielsen, Evert Verhagen

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This study aimed to explore how stakeholders in athletics perceive the relevance of injury prevention, determine their communication preferences, and describe their expectations regarding injury prevention. We conducted a cross-sectional study using an exploratory online survey with high-level athletes (i. e. listed by the French ministry of sports), non-high-level athletes (i. e. all competitive level except high-level athletes), coaches, and health professionals licensed with the French Federation of Athletics. The survey was composed of three parts regarding stakeholder's characteristics (4 questions), perceived relevance (2 questions), communication preferences and expectations (3 questions) towards injury prevention. There were 2,864 responders to the survey. Almost all responders found that injury prevention is relevant (97.7% [95% CI 97.0% to 98.2%]), without any significant differences in the distribution between stakeholders' age, experience and sex (p>0.05). About three-quarters of the stakeholders preferred to find injury prevention information on a website (77.4%) without significant differences between stakeholders' categories (p>0.05); other media to find injury prevention information was chosen by less than 50% of responders. Expectations about injury prevention were mainly explanations, advice and tips about injury knowledge, management and prevention, based on expert opinion and/or scientific research. In conclusion, these results confirm that injury prevention is a challenge shared by numerous stakeholders in athletics, within France, and provide some orientation on how and what information to disseminate to these stakeholders.

Original language	English
Journal	International Journal of Sports Medicine
Volume	43
Issue	12
Pages (from-to)	1052-1060
Number of pages	9
ISSN	0172-4622
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1843-6533
Publication status	Published - Nov 2022

Keywords

Humans
Cross-Sectional Studies
Motivation
Sports
Sports Medicine
Athletes
Injury risk reduction
Implementation
Communication
Knowledge translation
Track and field

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French Athletics Stakeholders' Perceptions of Relevance and Expectations on Injury Prevention. / Edouard, Pascal; Ruffault, Alexis; Bolling, Caroline et al.
In: International Journal of Sports Medicine, Vol. 43, No. 12, 11.2022, p. 1052-1060.

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