Table 1

Intervention group team and player exposure and compliance data overall and stratified into high (n=61 teams, 831 players), intermediate (n=60 teams, 823 players) and low (n=63 teams, 817 players) compliance tertiles

TeamsPlayers
Mean number of training sessions during season (SD, range)38 (12, 5–77)28 (13, 1–76)
 Low compliance35 (13, 5–71)20 (11, 1–64)
 Intermediate compliance39 (10, 20–66)28 (10, 1–69)
 High compliance41 (13, 8–77)36 (12, 3–76)
Mean number of matches during season (SD, range)19 (8, 1–50)16 (8, 0–56)*
 Low compliance18 (7, 1–41)13 (8, 0–41)
 Intermediate compliance20 (7, 5–42)16 (7, 0–40)
 High compliance20 (9, 3–50)18 (9, 0–56)
Mean number of neuromuscular training (NMT) sessions during season (SD, range)30 (10, 1–52)21 (10, 1–51)
 Low compliance22 (8, 1–36)12 (5, 1–26)
 Intermediate compliance32 (6, 17–48)22 (6, 1–37)
 High compliance37 (10, 8–52)30 (9, 2–51)
Mean number of NMT sessions/week (SD, range)1.4 (0.3, 0.3–2.0)1.0 (0.4, 0.0–2.1)
 Low compliance1.1 (0.2, 0.3–1.3)0.6 (0.2, 0.0–0.9)
 Intermediate compliance1.4 (0.1, 1.3–1.6)1.0 (0.1, 0.9–1.2)
 High compliance1.7 (0.1, 1.6–2.0)1.4 (0.2, 1.2–2.1)
  • *Maximum number of player matches during season exceeds number of team matches because of matches played with other teams.