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Filter by:Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are among the most common knee ligament injuries, causing joint instability and impairments. Besides being challenging, this type of injury greatly affects the athlete's passion and wellbeing, and it is associated with several risk factors. Injuries to the ACL are estimated to occur within 80,000 to 250,000 young, active and healthy athletes each year. This cross-sectional observational study aimed at translating, adapting cross-culturally, and investigating the psychometric properties of the Marx Activity Rating Scale (MARS) and the Knee Stability in Sports/Cutting-Pivoting Ability (KSS/CPA) scale in Saudi patients with anterior cruciate ligament injuries. For this study, a convenient sample size of 100 athletes with ACL injuries and healthy participants will be selected from different Saudi hospitals and clubs. Study participants will be informed about the study and a consent form will be obtained before they participate. A number of scales will be used as outcome measures, including the MARS, KSS/CPA scale, Knee Injury, and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score, Lysholm Knee Score, and International Knee Documentation Committee Subjective Knee Form. Internal consistency of both the MARS and KSS/CPA scales will be tested using Cronbach's alpha. A construct's validity will be measured by Spearman's correlation coefficient. Content validity can be determined by examining whether there are floor and ceiling effects. A significance level of 0.05 will be used to determine whether the data is significant. Ultimately, the study will help patients with ACL injuries to make informed decisions about their treatment, empower healthcare professionals to understand patients' concerns, and facilitate research.
Approximately 9% of the world's deaths, more than 5 million deaths annually, are due to injury. In high-income countries, where the epidemiology and outcomes of traumatic injury are well characterized, trauma primarily affects young, productive members of the population and is associated with significant long-term disability. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries like Cameroon, injured people face multiple obstacles to trauma care, including potentially lifesaving follow-up care after hospital discharge. The Investigators' community-based survey of 8,065 patients in South west Cameroon found that 34.6% of injured respondents did not seek immediate formal care after injury, and another 9.9% only sought formal care after alternative means, such as consultation with traditional medicine practitioners. In Cameroon, for the 65.4% of injured people who seek formal care after injury,5 therapeutic itineraries can be complex, often involving poorly supported referrals to other facilities or transitions away from formal care. As a result, formal systems of care fail to retain trauma patients for follow-up care, a missed opportunity as these patients have already overcome significant financial and personal challenges to seek initial care for their injuries. Consequently, discharged trauma patients who may benefit from follow-up care often delay care until advanced complications develop. The objective of this study is to evaluate a machine learning optimized phone-based screening tool that predicts which trauma patients are most likely to benefit from follow-up care. A Cluster randomized trial controlled trail will be carried out in 10 hospitals in Cameroon involving 852 trauma patients. The control group shall use the existing standard mHealth screening tool while the intervention shall use the optimized version of the mHealth screening tool (intervention) using the machine learning approach. Patients shall be followed up over a 6 months period to determine the proportion of trauma post discharge patients that need follow up care using mobile phone.
Traumatic injury and inadequate follow-up care are a significant cause of morbidity and 10% of all deaths in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In Cameroon, ~50% of all emergency department (ED) visits are due to traumatic injury, which is likely only ~60% of all traumatic injuries. In the subset of patients who seek care, follow-up after discharge can save lives, yet is uncommon due to both supply-side (e.g., under-resourced health systems, poor data) and demand-side (e.g., poverty) barriers, resulting in preventable complications after discharge (e.g., sepsis, osteomyelitis). Consequently, better follow-up care of trauma patients is a neglected, but high-yield opportunity to improve injury outcomes, especially when coupled with mobile health technologies (mHealth) to better predict and implement post-discharge care, preventing disability and death. Thus, in this study, the investigators will scale up an existing trauma registry and expand use of a mHealth screening tool (triage tool). At 10 hospitals, the investigators will implement a trauma registry and mHealth tool and evaluate success in a mixed-methods study; a quantitative prospective cohort of all eligible injured patients will be followed for 6 months after discharge and an inductive qualitative study.
Background: Physical activity programs at the workplace have shown positive results on physical capacities and pain for several years. Due to the duration of the training session, the need of instructor, and the need of a place to practice, these programs are commonly complex to implement. For this reason, many of companies, especially companies in manual sectors are turning to another solution, i.e warm-up intervention before work shift. These interventions present on paper numerous advantages such as short duration, no need to specifically allocate a place in companies and the possibility to perform exercises in working clothes… Surprisingly, while positive effects of warm-up interventions on pain, performance physical and psychological capacities, are expansively reported in sport context, effects of workplace warm-up intervention are lacking. Therefore, the aims of this study are (1) to implement such intervention among vineyard-workers, workers highly exposed to heavy physical workload and pain and (2) to assess their effects on physical (pain, strength, flexibility) and psychological (workload) functions and also on work-related outcomes (work performance, readiness to work) Methods: A cluster randomized study will be implemented among French vineyard workers. Four groups of 30 participants will be constituted; corresponding to four different conditions: (1) hybrid warm-up intervention (HWU); (2) dynamic warm-up intervention (DWU); (3) stretching warm-up intervention (SWU); (4) no warm-up intervention (NWU). A total of 120 vineyard-workers will be recruited to participate in the study. Discussion: The results will provide more evidence about the short-term effects of warm-up interventions at the workplace, and will provide more evidence on which warm-up modality is the most effective on pain, performance, physical and psychological capacities among vineyard workers.
Generation Victoria (GenV) is a longitudinal, population-based study of Victorian children and their parents that will bring together data on a wide range of conditions, exposures and outcomes. GenV blends study-collected, study-enhanced and linked data. It will be multi-purpose, supporting observational, interventional, health services and policy research within the same cohort. It is designed to address physical, mental and social issues experienced during childhood, as well as the antecedents of a wide range of diseases of ageing. It seeks to generate translatable evidence (prediction, prevention, treatments, services) to improve future wellbeing and reduce the future disease burden of children and adults. The GenV Cohort 2020s is open to all babies born over a two-year period, and their parents, residing in the state of Victoria Australia. The GenV Cohort 2020s is preceded by an Advance Cohort of babies born between 5 Dec 2020 and 3 October 2021, and their parents. This comprises all families recruited at GenV's Vanguard hospital (Joan Kirner Women's and Children's) and at birthing hospitals throughout Victoria as GenV scaled up to commence recruiting for the GenV Cohort 2020s. The Advance Cohort have ongoing and full participation in GenV for their lifetime unless they withdraw but may have less complete data and biosamples.
The FIFA 11 + is an injury prevention that has shown to improve physical performance and prevent injuries in male futsal players, however, this injury prevention program has not been tested in female futsal players. The investigators aim to test the effects of the FIFA 11 + program on physical performance and injury prevention in female futsal players.
This study aims to compare the injuries that occurred in the football players after the isolation and lack of training caused by New Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), with the previous season, based on the example of a professional football team in Turkey.
This study seeks to evaluate how work conditions affect workers' health and well-being, job attitudes and decisions on the job, and key organizational outcomes. This study is being carried out in partnership with a national retailer's e-commerce division. The study centers on a cluster randomized trial evaluation of changes in workplace policies and practices in order to understand their impact on workers, families, and the firm but also utilize multi-method data to gain a better understanding of the stressors and sources of resilience for this growing, but understudied population of low-wage workers.
Video streaming as an additional tool to telephone was introduced in some Norwegian emergency medical call centers during the spring of 2020. This allows the dispatchers to communicate with the caller through video streaming during emergency calls. Some studies are conducted on this use of video streaming, but further research is needed. In this study, the investigators have chosen to focus on potential effect from video streaming on bystander first aid for injured patients. The investigators have knowledge from preliminary results that dispatchers often find video streaming useful in emergency calls regarding injuries. This study will investigate whether the use of video streaming might have an effect on the recognition rate by dispatchers on the need for bystander first aid for injured patients. In addition, the investigators will investigate whether video-instructions from dispatcher can improve bystander first aid quality. The investigators will be using data collected by ambulance personnel including patients with injuries, as well as data from EMCC journals and audio logs.
Understanding how candidate genes, previously associated with injury susceptibility, influence the incidence of muscle, bone, ligament, and tendon injuries across the development pathway of elite footballers may provide valuable insight into inherent injury predisposition to support the long-term development of every individual. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the association between candidate genetic variants and muscle, bone, ligament, and tendon injuries in elite football with sub-analysis of the influence of age and maturation on injury susceptibility.