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NCT Number: NCT03459313

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Sports Injury Athletic Injuries Wounds and Injuries

Age range

12 year–16 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Swedish Athletics

Stockholm, Sweden

About this study

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).

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Active group

Other

For this study, the Frisk.Friidrott (Healthy.Athletics/Track&Field) website has been developed. The purpose of the website is to provide an easy-to-use tool that can assist coaches and parents involved in youth athletics with information how to structure training and recovery planning, provide guidance on possible injuries, and provide other information on health for youth athletes.

Primary outcomes

  1. Injury incidence

    Time frame: four months

    The primary outcome measure will be time from study entry to the first reported injury event

Secondary outcomes

  1. Health literacy

    Time frame: four and ten months

    Evaluate health literacy using Swedish versions of; The Japanese Communicative and Critical Health literacy scale (adults) and the Health Literacy for School-aged Children (HLSAC) instrument (youth athletes)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Linkoeping University

Other Gov

Collaborators

  • Swedish Athletics Association

Registry information

Official study title

Prevention of Injuries in Young Athletics (Track and Field) Athletes: Initiation of Life-long Sports Health Literacy - KLUB§ Athletics

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2019
First posted
Mar 8, 2018
Registry last updated
Oct 1, 2019

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