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The reliability of team-based primary data collectors for the collection of exposure and protective equipment use data in community sport
  1. R A Braham,
  2. C F Finch
  1. Monash University, Prahran, Australia
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor Caroline Finch
 NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre, University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; c.finchunsw.edu.au

Abstract

Objective: Reliable data allows for the generalisation of study findings to the wider population. The aim of this study was to assess the reliability of using community team based primary data collectors for the collection of exposure and protective equipment use data.

Methods: Nine clubs (23 teams) from a metropolitan Australian Football league in Victoria each provided one primary data collector to monitor exposure and protective equipment use over a regular playing season. Four random audits of this data collection for each team were conducted throughout the regular playing season. The audits were compared with data collected by the club data collectors and the level of agreement assessed.

Results: Although exposure data agreement was higher during competition and protective equipment use agreement higher during training, there was no significant difference in data collected by the primary data collectors and the random audits.

Conclusions: The use of trained data collectors associated with Australian Football teams provides reliable information about player exposure and protective equipment use in community intervention studies.

  • AFIPP, Australian Football Injury Prevention Project
  • PDC, primary data collector
  • community intervention
  • randomised controlled trial
  • reliability
  • trained data collectors

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Footnotes

  • AFIPP was funded by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation. Rebecca Braham was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council research scholarship and a small grant provided by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation.

  • Conflict of interest: none declared.

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