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Coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of Irish field hockey coaches
Translating injury prevention research into practice has been challenging, which may be due to a poor understanding of the contextual factors influencing the occurrence of injury. Coaches are key figure in sporting environments and hold pivotal roles in preventing injury. Therefore, the aim of this...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8320248/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34345440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001074 |
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author | Rees, Huw Matthews, James McCarthy Persson, Ulrik Delahunt, Eamonn Boreham, Colin Blake, Catherine |
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description | Translating injury prevention research into practice has been challenging, which may be due to a poor understanding of the contextual factors influencing the occurrence of injury. Coaches are key figure in sporting environments and hold pivotal roles in preventing injury. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of field hockey coaches to injury and injury prevention. Thirteen field hockey coaches from the amateur Irish Hockey League were interviewed. Reflexive thematic analysis led to three general dimensions comprised five higher-order themes, categorised from 16 lower-order themes. Coaches had positive beliefs regarding the benefits of injury prevention over injury management. However, they lacked the necessary knowledge and skills to successfully implement injury prevention strategies with players. Coaches recognised the importance of empowering players to self-manage training loads to promote injury prevention but acknowledged the need to protect younger players from increased loads. Many barriers to injury prevention were not controllable by coaches including fixture congestion and poor structuring of the sport’s domestic calendar. While coaches can play a key role in the implementation of injury prevention strategies, there is also a requirement to examine how system level barriers to injury prevention can be reduced. |
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spelling | pubmed-83202482021-08-02 Coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of Irish field hockey coaches Rees, Huw Matthews, James McCarthy Persson, Ulrik Delahunt, Eamonn Boreham, Colin Blake, Catherine BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med Qualitative Research Translating injury prevention research into practice has been challenging, which may be due to a poor understanding of the contextual factors influencing the occurrence of injury. Coaches are key figure in sporting environments and hold pivotal roles in preventing injury. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of field hockey coaches to injury and injury prevention. Thirteen field hockey coaches from the amateur Irish Hockey League were interviewed. Reflexive thematic analysis led to three general dimensions comprised five higher-order themes, categorised from 16 lower-order themes. Coaches had positive beliefs regarding the benefits of injury prevention over injury management. However, they lacked the necessary knowledge and skills to successfully implement injury prevention strategies with players. Coaches recognised the importance of empowering players to self-manage training loads to promote injury prevention but acknowledged the need to protect younger players from increased loads. Many barriers to injury prevention were not controllable by coaches including fixture congestion and poor structuring of the sport’s domestic calendar. While coaches can play a key role in the implementation of injury prevention strategies, there is also a requirement to examine how system level barriers to injury prevention can be reduced. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8320248/ /pubmed/34345440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001074 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Qualitative Research Rees, Huw Matthews, James McCarthy Persson, Ulrik Delahunt, Eamonn Boreham, Colin Blake, Catherine Coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of Irish field hockey coaches |
title | Coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of Irish field hockey coaches |
title_full | Coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of Irish field hockey coaches |
title_fullStr | Coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of Irish field hockey coaches |
title_full_unstemmed | Coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of Irish field hockey coaches |
title_short | Coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of Irish field hockey coaches |
title_sort | coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of irish field hockey coaches |
topic | Qualitative Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8320248/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34345440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001074 |
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