The Effectiveness of a Running-related Injury Prevention Program in Runners

Universidade Cidade de Sao Paulo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Running-related Injuries

Treatments: Behavioral: Feedback Based Surveillance; Behavioral: RunIn3 Prevention Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03892239

UNICID 20

Details and patient eligibility

About

Running is effective in increasing levels of physical activity and promotes a number of beneficial health effects. However, running can lead to running- related injuries (RRI). In theory, such injuries can be avoided with the implementation of prevention programs. But in practice, there is a paucity of prevention programs that are effective in reducing the risk of RRIs. In a previous study, the investigators developed an RRI prevention program using the Intervention Mapping framework. The RRI prevention program was named RunIn3. The present study will evaluate the effectiveness of the RunIn3 RRI prevention program.

Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of an RRI prevention program (i.e., RunIn3).

There will be recruited 530 runners of the state of São Paulo aged 18 years or older. After inclusion, participants will be randomly assigned and allocated in two groups: (1) intervention group, which will be the target of the implementation of the RunIn3 prevention program; and (2) control group, which will receive a minimal intervention (i.e., feedback based on surveillance).

Enrollment: 530 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

• Running experience of at least three months;
• Residents of the state of São Paulo;
• No running-related injury (RRI) at baseline;
• No history of RRI in the past three months.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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530 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Monitoring and suggestion of training progress. Behaviour change strategy based on increasing knowledge.

Treatment:

Behavioral: RunIn3 Prevention Program

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Monitoring and suggestion of training progress.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Feedback Based Surveillance