Prevention of Injuries in Young Athletics (Track and Field) Athletes

Linköping University (LiU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sports Injury

Treatments: Other: Active group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03459313

2017/520-31

Details and patient eligibility

About

The long-term purpose of an on-going participatory action research program "The KLUB-study" in Sweden, that involves scientists and representatives from all levels of athletics, is to develop a sustainable framework for safe athletics (track and field) training for child athletes born 2002-2006. The first part of the research program, a 1-year longitudinal study analysing training and injury data, was completed in November 2017. The present study sets out to evaluate a website that aims to support coaches and caregivers in their role as adult key stakeholders to foster young athletes to become adult athletes who possess the tools to maintain a healthy sporting lifestyle.

Full description

The intervention will be implemented in youth athletics and evaluated in a randomised controlled trial (RCT). It will follow the consensus guidelines for studies in athletics and be reported according to the CONSORT checklist. The participating clubs will be randomly allocated into active and control group. The active group will be provided the intervention program, i.e. access to a website, aimed to support coaches, caregivers´ and athletes' and improve knowledge and health literacy to make more informed choices that promote health. The control group will continue to train according to their routines and will get access to the website after 4 months.

The participants will be assessed at three times, at the beginning of the study (T1), after four months (T2), at ten months (T3) and additional prospective data on training and injury will be collected during the first four months (T1b).

Enrollment: 140 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• belonging to a sports club and participate in organized training, athletics (track and field)
• born 2002 - 2006

Exclusion criteria

• not, on a regular basis, participating in athletics (track and field) training

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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140 participants in 2 patient groups

Active group

Experimental group

Description:

The active group will be provided the intervention program, i.e. access to a website.

Treatment:

Other: Active group

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will continue to train according to their routines and will get access to the website after 4 months.