Evaluating the Efficacy of a Ladies Gaelic Football-Specific Injury Prevention Programme

Dublin City University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Performances; Injury

Treatments: Behavioral: Ladies Gaelic Football-Specific Injury Prevention Programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07179393

DCUREC/2025/056

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this research is to evaluate the impact of an injury prevention programme on injury risk factors and performance outcomes in Ladies Gaelic Football players. This injury prevention programme was designed with input from Ladies Gaelic football stakeholders and experts and this study will determine if this programme reduces injury risk and improves physical performance over time. Participants will complete physical performance tests before and after the intervention, which consists of incorporating the injury prevention programme into regular team training sessions for 12 weeks. The study will also integrate a qualitative component to assess player's perceptions of the programme and their willingness to implement it.

Enrollment: 197 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Current Ladies Gaelic Football player competing at adult or minor level from teams consenting to participate in the trial

Exclusion criteria

• Players with a current injury preventing full training participation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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197 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Those in the Control Group continue with their regular training/injury prevention practices during the intervention period.

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Those in the Intervention Group perform the injury prevention programme twice weekly as part of their regular training sessions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Ladies Gaelic Football-Specific Injury Prevention Programme