Clinical trial NCT03307434: To Evaluate the Effectiveness of an Injury Prevention Program in Athletics
Official title: PREVATHLE: To Evaluate the Effectiveness of an Injury Prevention Program in Athletics
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Athletics
Wounds and Injuries
Prevention Program
Keywords: Program
Prevention
Injury
Athletics
Lead sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-10-11
Enrollment: 880
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 15
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The practice of Athletics leads to risk of injuries: about 61 to 76% athletes will occurred at least one injury during a season. The prevention of Athletics injuries thus represents a major challenge for all stakeholders around athletes. In team sports, injury prevention programs have been implemented and scientifically validated. However, no injury prevention programs have been implemented and scientifically validated for Athletics. In this context, a primary objective will be to analyze the effectiveness of an Athletics Injury Prevention Program (AIPP) to reduce the frequency (percentage) of athletes presenting at least one injury complaint related to athletic practice at long term (40 weeks). A statistician will carry out a randomized control trial in cluster (clubs with AIPP and clubs without AIPP), multicenter, including athletes between 15 and 40 years old and licensed in athletic clubs and followed during an athletic season.

Detailed description: The person in charge of the platform will collect on a weekly basis via a IT-questionnaire sent out automatically every Monday the following parameters: injury complaints (presence or absence, and characteristics if presence) and exposure (number of hours of athletic practice (training and competition) and intensity), and the number of AIPP realization per week. The main criterion will be the frequency (percentage) of athletes presenting at least one injury complaint that have a consequence on the practice (reduction or cessation of practice).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* To dismissed in athletics clubs affiliated to French Federation of Athletics
* To practice one of the disciplines of athletics
* Men or women aged between 15 and 40 years

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patient's refusal to participate in the study and / or inability to express agreement or signing the informed consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: injury complaint and have a consequence on the practice
timeFrame: at 40 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: injury complaint number and hours number of athletic practice
timeFrame: at 40 weeks
measure: injury complaint number and weeks number of athletic practice
timeFrame: at 40 weeks
measure: week without injury complaints
timeFrame: at 40 weeks
measure: injury complaint number at the training
timeFrame: at 40 weeks
measure: injury complaint number and at the competition
timeFrame: at 40 weeks
measure: type of injury complaint between 4 consequences
timeFrame: at 40 weeks
measure: injury complaint number by groups
timeFrame: at 40 weeks
measure: injury complaint type
timeFrame: at 40 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Saint-Étienne
country: France
facility: Chu Saint-Etienne
Study officials:
affiliation: CHU SAINT-ETIENNE
name: Pascal EDOUARD, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Edouard P, Steffen K, Peuriere M, Gardet P, Navarro L, Blanco D. Effect of an Unsupervised Exercises-Based Athletics Injury Prevention Programme on Injury Complaints Leading to Participation Restriction in Athletics: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Oct 28;18(21):11334. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182111334.