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FIFA football nurse – A task sharing approach in sports and exercise medicine practice in grassroots women’s football in low- and middle- income settings. A study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

Football (soccer) is a very popular team sport among African women and girls, with player numbers continuing to rise at all levels of the sport. Whereas the participation in football and associated injuries are on the rise, there are not enough sports and exercise medicine (SEM) personnel to attend...

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Autores principales: Mkumbuzi, Nonhlanhla Sharon, Massey, Andrew, Lubega, Samuel Kiwanuka, Sorowen, Ben, Chisati, Enock Madalitso
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10513307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37733774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278428
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author Mkumbuzi, Nonhlanhla Sharon
Massey, Andrew
Lubega, Samuel Kiwanuka
Sorowen, Ben
Chisati, Enock Madalitso
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Massey, Andrew
Lubega, Samuel Kiwanuka
Sorowen, Ben
Chisati, Enock Madalitso
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description Football (soccer) is a very popular team sport among African women and girls, with player numbers continuing to rise at all levels of the sport. Whereas the participation in football and associated injuries are on the rise, there are not enough sports and exercise medicine (SEM) personnel to attend to these women football players. While Africa may not currently have enough SEM trained medical doctors and/or physiotherapists, it has relatively higher numbers of other healthcare workers; for example, nurses, who lead healthcare services provision from community to tertiary levels. The primary objective of this study will be to compare sports medicine practices; injury prevention behaviours; injury risk parameters; incidence and prevalence of injuries and illnesses in teams with and without a Football Nurse during one competitive season in Malawi’s Women’s football league. This study will be a cluster randomised control trial will recruit 24 teams from the Women’s Football League in Malawi, which will be randomised to either the intervention group or the control group. A cohort of 12 nurses will receive training in basic football medicine; after which they will be attached to a total of 12 women’s football teams (intervention group) during one competitive season. The Football Nurses will be directly report to a physiotherapist or doctor in their district to whom they will refer serious injuries for investigations, or further management. The teams with Football Nurses will be compared to other teams that will not have Football Nurses. We expect to develop a low cost, sustainable and context relevant solution to manage the treatment gap of football injuries/illnesses in underserved communities such as women’s football. Trial registration number: Pan African Clinical Trial Registry (PACTR202205481965514).
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spelling pubmed-105133072023-09-22 FIFA football nurse – A task sharing approach in sports and exercise medicine practice in grassroots women’s football in low- and middle- income settings. A study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial Mkumbuzi, Nonhlanhla Sharon Massey, Andrew Lubega, Samuel Kiwanuka Sorowen, Ben Chisati, Enock Madalitso PLoS One Study Protocol Football (soccer) is a very popular team sport among African women and girls, with player numbers continuing to rise at all levels of the sport. Whereas the participation in football and associated injuries are on the rise, there are not enough sports and exercise medicine (SEM) personnel to attend to these women football players. While Africa may not currently have enough SEM trained medical doctors and/or physiotherapists, it has relatively higher numbers of other healthcare workers; for example, nurses, who lead healthcare services provision from community to tertiary levels. The primary objective of this study will be to compare sports medicine practices; injury prevention behaviours; injury risk parameters; incidence and prevalence of injuries and illnesses in teams with and without a Football Nurse during one competitive season in Malawi’s Women’s football league. This study will be a cluster randomised control trial will recruit 24 teams from the Women’s Football League in Malawi, which will be randomised to either the intervention group or the control group. A cohort of 12 nurses will receive training in basic football medicine; after which they will be attached to a total of 12 women’s football teams (intervention group) during one competitive season. The Football Nurses will be directly report to a physiotherapist or doctor in their district to whom they will refer serious injuries for investigations, or further management. The teams with Football Nurses will be compared to other teams that will not have Football Nurses. We expect to develop a low cost, sustainable and context relevant solution to manage the treatment gap of football injuries/illnesses in underserved communities such as women’s football. Trial registration number: Pan African Clinical Trial Registry (PACTR202205481965514). Public Library of Science 2023-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10513307/ /pubmed/37733774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278428 Text en © 2023 Mkumbuzi et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Mkumbuzi, Nonhlanhla Sharon
Massey, Andrew
Lubega, Samuel Kiwanuka
Sorowen, Ben
Chisati, Enock Madalitso
FIFA football nurse – A task sharing approach in sports and exercise medicine practice in grassroots women’s football in low- and middle- income settings. A study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
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title_full_unstemmed FIFA football nurse – A task sharing approach in sports and exercise medicine practice in grassroots women’s football in low- and middle- income settings. A study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
title_short FIFA football nurse – A task sharing approach in sports and exercise medicine practice in grassroots women’s football in low- and middle- income settings. A study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
title_sort fifa football nurse – a task sharing approach in sports and exercise medicine practice in grassroots women’s football in low- and middle- income settings. a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10513307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37733774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278428
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