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| Title |
Injuries in girls’ soccer and basketball: a comparison of high schools with and without athletic trainers
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| Published in |
Injury Epidemiology, July 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40621-018-0159-6 |
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| Authors |
Lauren A. Pierpoint, Cynthia R. LaBella, Christy L. Collins, Sarah K. Fields, R. Dawn Comstock |
| Abstract |
Sports injuries impose physical and economic burdens on high school athletes, yet only 37% of high schools have access to a fulltime certified athletic trainer (AT). Although intuitively there are multiple benefits of AT coverage, research demonstrating the measurable effect of AT coverage on rates and patterns of injury is limited. Our objective was to investigate the epidemiology of girls' basketball and soccer injuries in high schools with and without an AT. We compared data captured by two similar sports injury surveillance systems during the 2006/07-2008/09 academic years. High School Reporting Information Online (RIO) included a national sample of schools with ATs, and the Sports Injury Surveillance System (SISS) included a sample of Chicago public high schools without ATs. Overall injury rates were higher in schools without ATs than schools with ATs in girls' soccer (RR: 1.73, 95% CI: 1.51-2.00) and basketball (RR: 1.22, 95% CI: 1.03-1.45). Recurrent injury rates were even higher in schools without ATs compared to schools with ATs in soccer (RR: 6.00 95% CI: 4.54-7.91) and basketball (RR: 2.99, 95% CI: 2.12-4.14). Conversely, concussion rates were higher in schools with ATs than schools without ATs in soccer (RR: 8.05, 95% CI: 2.00-32.51) and basketball (RR: 4.50, 95% CI: 1.43-14.16). Other injury patterns were similar between the two samples. This study demonstrated the effectiveness of AT coverage of high school girls' soccer and basketball, both in reducing overall and recurrent injury rates and in identifying athletes with concussions. Future studies should evaluate the effect of ATs on other high school sports and on youth sports to determine if these findings are generalizable across sports and age groups. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 363 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 227 | 63% |
| Canada | 5 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
| Ireland | 3 | <1% |
| Mozambique | 1 | <1% |
| Comoros | 1 | <1% |
| Georgia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 121 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 298 | 82% |
| Scientists | 39 | 11% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 21 | 6% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | <1% |
| Unknown | 2 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 81 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 81 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 14 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 14% |
| Researcher | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 14 | 17% |
| Unknown | 22 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sports and Recreations | 18 | 22% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 11% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 7 | 9% |
| Unknown | 29 | 36% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 356. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 September 2022.
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