Effectiveness and Process Evaluation of the Injury-preventive Program #Utviklingsklar

Summary

The majority of injuries among Norwegian youth occur in sports. The purpose of the project is to conduct an effect and process evaluation of the intervention #Utviklingsklar, an injury-preventive club-based intervention in youth handball and football. Central to the evaluation is whether the intervention influences the occurrence of new and recurring injuries through changed coaching practices (injury prevention warm-up, strength training, and management of players with pain and injuries). Over one season, participants from 30 clubs in youth handball and football respectively will participate in two cluster-randomized studies. Coaches and club leaders implement #Utviklingsklar and create plans and practices for injury prevention. The control clubs train as usual. Players report injuries. An additional handball and football club are followed up with observation and interviews in a qualitative part of the process evaluation. The project provides knowledge about how injuries and health in the ¾ of Norwegian youth who participate in organized sports are affected by interventions aimed at club and coaching practices.

Conditions

• Sports Injury

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

#Utviklingsklar

The intervention consists of 1) an e-learning course, 2) a workshop to create plans and practices for injury-prevention, 3) a mid-season meeting

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Linkoeping University

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• University of Bath

  collaborator OTHER

• The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• The Norwegian Football Federation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• The Norwegian Handball Federation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Hege Grindem · Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

12 Years

Max Age

100 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-05-07

Primary Completion

2025-11-09

Completion

2025-11-30

Countries

• Norway

Study Locations