LETTER

Sports trainers have accurate but incomplete recall of injury details

R A Braham¹, C F Finch², P McCrory³

¹ Monash University, Clayton, Australia
² University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
³ British Journal of Sports Medicine, Melbourne, Australia

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor Finch
University of NSW, NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; c.finch@unsw.edu.au

Keywords: community intervention; injury recall; trainers

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The importance of preventing head/neck injuries in Australian football is well recognised but accurate data are required. In large scale epidemiological studies, the collection of reliable data at many different locations at once is difficult. Different strategies have been used to collect injury data, including self report surveys, injury recall reports from the treatment/first aid providers, and on site primary data collectors (PDCs). We wanted to assess the accuracy of a two week injury recall by treatment/first aid providers, compared with injuries reported on site at the football field on the same day.

We monitored head/neck/dental injury in community Australian football during the 2001 playing season. At each game and training session, PDCs (usually the team sports trainers) from nine clubs recorded the body region, nature, and treatment of injury on a standardised data collection form. A phone call was also made to the PDC within two weeks of the . . . [Full text of this article]

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