To Evaluate the Effectiveness of an Injury Prevention Program in Athletics (PREVATHLE)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

Status: Completed

Conditions: Athletics; Prevention Program; Wounds and Injuries

Treatments: Other: Athletics Injury Prevention Program; Other: regular training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03307434

1708116

ID-RCB (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The practice of Athletics leads to risk of injuries: about 61 to 76% athletes will occurred at least one injury during a season. The prevention of Athletics injuries thus represents a major challenge for all stakeholders around athletes. In team sports, injury prevention programs have been implemented and scientifically validated. However, no injury prevention programs have been implemented and scientifically validated for Athletics. In this context, a primary objective will be to analyze the effectiveness of an Athletics Injury Prevention Program (AIPP) to reduce the frequency (percentage) of athletes presenting at least one injury complaint related to athletic practice at long term (40 weeks). A statistician will carry out a randomized control trial in cluster (clubs with AIPP and clubs without AIPP), multicenter, including athletes between 15 and 40 years old and licensed in athletic clubs and followed during an athletic season.

Full description

The person in charge of the platform will collect on a weekly basis via a IT-questionnaire sent out automatically every Monday the following parameters: injury complaints (presence or absence, and characteristics if presence) and exposure (number of hours of athletic practice (training and competition) and intensity), and the number of AIPP realization per week. The main criterion will be the frequency (percentage) of athletes presenting at least one injury complaint that have a consequence on the practice (reduction or cessation of practice).

Enrollment: 880 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To dismissed in athletics clubs affiliated to French Federation of Athletics
• To practice one of the disciplines of athletics
• Men or women aged between 15 and 40 years

Exclusion criteria

• Patient's refusal to participate in the study and / or inability to express agreement or signing the informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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880 participants in 2 patient groups

experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

experimental group is composed of athletes will be followed the Athletics Injury Prevention Program

Treatment:

Other: Athletics Injury Prevention Program

control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

control group is composed of athletes will be continued their regular training

Treatment:

Other: regular training