Trial reportBritish journal of sports medicine2004
Community football players' attitudes towards protective equipment--a pre-season measure.
Trial report in British journal of sports medicine, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The extent to which behavioural and social sciences theories and models are used in sport injury prevention research.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2010Pooled it
- The Preventing Australian Football Injuries with Exercise (PAFIX) Study: a group randomised controlled trial.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2009Trial
- Should football players wear custom fitted mouthguards? Results from a group randomised controlled trial.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2005Trial
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- A pilot case crossover study of the use of padded headgear in junior Australian football.Concussion (London, England) · 2022Article
- Athletes' and Coaches' Attitudes Toward Protective Headgear as Concussion and Head Injury Prevention: A Scoping Review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Article
- Concussion in community Australian football - epidemiological monitoring of the causes and immediate impact on play.Injury epidemiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe Australian football injury prevention project (AFIPP) was a randomised controlled trial examining the effects of protective equipment on injury rates in Australian Football.
objectiveTo present the results of the AFIPP baseline survey of community football players' attitudes towards protective equipment.
methodsTeams of players were recruited from the largest community football league in Victoria, Australia, during the 2001 playing season; 301 players were enrolled in the study and all were surveyed before the season began about their attitudes towards protective headgear and mouthguards.
resultsAlmost three quarters of the players (73.6%) reported wearing mouthguards during the previous playing season (year 2000) compared with only 2.1% wearing headgear. The most common reasons for not wearing headgear and mouthguards (in non-users) were: "I don't like wearing it" (headgear: 44.8%; mouthguards: 30.6%), and "It is too uncomfortable" (headgear: 40.7%; mouthguards: 45.8%).
conclusionsThe higher mouthguard usage reflects the favourable attitudes towards mouthguards by Australian football players generally. Similarly, the low headgear usage reflects the low acceptance of this form of protection in this sport. Further research should be directed towards establishing the reasons why players seem to believe that headgear plays a role in injury prevention yet few wear it.
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