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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Sports Injury
• Interventions: Other: Active group

• Registration Number: NCT03459313
• Lead Sponsor: Linkoeping University

Brief 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.

Detailed 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).

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-02-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-03-07
• Study First Posted: 2018-03-08
• Study Start: 2018-03-18
• Primary Completion: 2018-07-20
• Study Completion: 2019-02-01
• Status Verified: 2019-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 2019-10-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 140

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Active group	Active group	The active group will be provided the intervention program, i.e. access to a website.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Injury incidence	four months	The primary outcome measure will be time from study entry to the first reported injury event

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Health literacy	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)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Swedish Athletics; 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden