Pots, M.M.L. (2012) Predictors of athletic injuries in sports students. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
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Abstract
Background: Sports students have a considerable risk of injuries due to the high frequency and intensity of their sports activities. A variety of risk factors has been proposed to be related to athletic injuries. The aim of this study is to identify the physical and psychosocial risk factors which are able to predict athletic injuries in sport students. Methods: 341 freshmen sports students participated in the baseline measurements of this multifactorial prospective cohort study. Anthropometric characteristics, sports participation, injury history, sports motivation, goal orientation and self-regulation were assessed at baseline by digitalized questionnaires. Injury data was collected for 224 sport students (160 males; 64 females, aged 19.0 ± 1.87 years) over a period of seven months. Data were analyzed using multivariate and multinomial logistic regression. ORs and 95o/o CI were calculated for the independent measures of physical and psychosociat toad. Results: A total of 139 athletic injuries were reported by 122 sports students. The injury incidence rate per 1000 hours of sports participation was 1.62. For female students, task orientation (OR: 3.67; was a significant predictor of athletic injuries. For male subjects, ego orientation (OR: 0.66 95°/o CI 0.46-0.97), planning (OR: 0.29; 95o/o a 0.13- 0.66), setf-efficacy (OR: 0.28; 95o/o a 0.10-0.82), intrinsic motivation -accomplishment (OR: 2.25; 95°/o CI 1.38-3.68), extrinsic motivation -external regulation (OR: 1.96; 95°/b CI 1.04-3.70) were significant predictors of athletic injuries. Conclusion: Injury risk is influenced by both physical and psychological factors. Especially selfregulation seems an important tool in lowering injury risk, because higher scores on the selfregulatory skills planning and self-efficacy are associated with a lower injury risk. Some sports motivation subscafes are associated with a higher risk of injuries: intrinsic motivation - accomplishment and extrinsic motivation - external regulation. The difference in hours of sports participation between the previous year and the study period is an important risk factor for an overuse injury.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Thesis) |
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| Supervisor name: | Brink, Dr. M.S. and Lemmink, Dr. K.A.P.M. and Center for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Cente |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2020 10:46 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2020 10:46 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/745 |
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