The Role of the Results of Functional Tests and Psychological Factors on Prediction of Injuries in Adolescent Female Football PlayersShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, ISSN 1661-7827, E-ISSN 1660-4601, Vol. 19, no 1, article id 143Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Football is a popular sport among adolescent females. Given the rate of injuries in female footballers, identifying factors that can predict injuries are important. These injuries are often caused by complex reasons. The aim of this study was to investigate if the combination of demographic (age, number of training and match play hours/week), psychosocial (perceived stress, adaptive coping strategies) and physiological factors (functional performance) can predict a traumatic injury in adolescent female footballers. A cohort consisting of 419 female football players aged 13–16 years was established. Baseline questionnaires covered potential risk factors for sport injuries, and measurements included football-related functional performance tests. Data were collected prospectively with a weekly online questionnaire for 52 weeks covering, e.g., injuries, training, and match play hours/week. A total of 62% of the players reported at least one traumatic injury during the 52 weeks. The coping strategy “positive reframing” had the strongest association with the risk of traumatic injuries. The combination of more frequent use of the coping strategy, positive reframing, and high levels of physical performance capacity may prevent a traumatic injury in adolescent female footballers. Coaches are encouraged to adopt both physiological and psychological factors when preventing injuries in young female footballers. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Basel: MDPI, 2021. Vol. 19, no 1, article id 143
Keywords [en]
athletic injury, coping; girls, soccer
National Category
Psychology Sport and Fitness Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-46231DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19010143ISI: 000751033300001PubMedID: 35010400Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85121522956OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-46231DiVA, id: diva2:1631090
Funder
Swedish National Centre for Research in Sports
Note
Funding: This research was funded by grants from the Swedish Naprapathic, and the Norwegian Naprapathic Associations, Swedish Research Council for Sport Science, Active life foundation and Sophiahemmet foundation. None of the grants are linked to a grant number.
2022-01-212022-01-212022-07-06Bibliographically approved