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

Sports Injury Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03459313
• Other study ID #: 2017/520-31
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 18, 2018
• Est. completion date: February 1, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: September 2019
• Source: Linkoeping University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

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).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 140
• Est. completion date: February 1, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: July 20, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 12 Years to 16 Years

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Athletic Injuries
• Sports Injury
• Wounds and Injuries

Intervention

Other:
• Active group
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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Swedish Athletics	Stockholm

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Linkoeping University	Swedish Athletics Association

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

References & Publications (4)

Jacobsson J, Bergin D, Timpka T, Nyce JM, Dahlström Ö. Injuries in youth track and field are perceived to have multiple-level causes that call for ecological (holistic-developmental) interventions: A national sporting community perceptions and experiences. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2018 Jan;28(1):348-355. doi: 10.1111/sms.12929. Epub 2017 Aug 4. — View Citation

Jacobsson J, Timpka T, Ekberg J, Kowalski J, Nilsson S, Renström P. Design of a protocol for large-scale epidemiological studies in individual sports: the Swedish Athletics injury study. Br J Sports Med. 2010 Dec;44(15):1106-11. doi: 10.1136/bjsm.2009.067678. Epub 2010 May 19. — View Citation

Moher D, Hopewell S, Schulz KF, Montori V, Gøtzsche PC, Devereaux PJ, Elbourne D, Egger M, Altman DG; CONSORT. CONSORT 2010 explanation and elaboration: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials. Int J Surg. 2012;10(1):28-55. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2011.10.001. Epub 2011 Oct 12. Review. — View Citation

Timpka T, Alonso JM, Jacobsson J, Junge A, Branco P, Clarsen B, Kowalski J, Mountjoy M, Nilsson S, Pluim B, Renström P, Rønsen O, Steffen K, Edouard P. Injury and illness definitions and data collection procedures for use in epidemiological studies in Athletics (track and field): consensus statement. Br J Sports Med. 2014 Apr;48(7):483-90. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2013-093241. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Injury incidence	The primary outcome measure will be time from study entry to the first reported injury event	four months
Secondary	Health literacy	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)	four and ten months