Sport injury prevention in-school and out-of-school? A qualitative investigation of the trans-contextual model

Alfred S. Y. LEE, Martyn STANDAGE, Martin S. HAGGER, King Chung Derwin CHAN

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Abstract

Objective: To investigate junior secondary school students' experiences and perspectives of in-school and out-of-school sport-safety, with a particular focus on the meaning and content that they applied to the motivational and social cognitive factors of sport injury prevention.

Design: Focus-group interview.

Method: Participants were 128 junior secondary school students (Form 1 to Form 3) aged between 12 and 16 years from two secondary schools. We organised focus-group interviews by class (group size = six to nine students). Seventeen groups completed semi-structured interviews regarding their experience, beliefs, and motives for injury prevention in-school and out-of-school. We analysed data by thematic content analysis using a typological approach.

Results: Higher order themes (N = 7) including in-school and out-of-school motives and social cognitive factors and associated lower-order themes (N = 16), emerged from the analysis corresponding to constructs from trans-contextual model tenets.

Conclusions: The current study is the first qualitative study to explore junior secondary school students' experience and perspectives on sport injury prevention, using trans-contextual model as a framework for investigation. The findings contribute to a better understanding on their motivational and social cognitive factors in adopting sport injury prevention. The content of the theme behavior also indicated the inadequacy of students' knowledge of effective sport injury prevention techniques, and underscored the importance of sport safety education. Copyright © 2019 Lee et al.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere0222015
JournalPLoS One
Volume14
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2019

Citation

Lee, A. S. Y., Standage, M., Hagger, M. S., & Chan, D. K. C. (2019). Sport injury prevention in-school and out-of-school? A qualitative investigation of the trans-contextual model. PLoS One, 14(9). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222015

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