Injuries in Canadian female high school rugby and coach perceptions of injury prevention: Informing an injury prevention implementation strategy

Shill, Isla Jordan

Injuries in Canadian female high school rugby and coach perceptions of injury prevention: Informing an injury prevention implementation strategy

dc.contributor.advisor	Emery, Carolyn A.
dc.contributor.author	Shill, Isla Jordan
dc.contributor.committeemember	Hagel, Brent Edward
dc.contributor.committeemember	Black, Amanda M.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Pasanen, Kati
dc.date	2021-02
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-08T16:39:08Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-08T16:39:08Z
dc.date.issued	2021-01-06
dc.description.abstract	This MSc thesis contains two projects focused on Canadian high school rugby. The first project is an evaluation of the epidemiology of female high school rugby in a Canadian context. Objective: To describe injury rates in female high school rugby and evaluate the association between baseline risk factors and injury outcomes. Methods: Injury surveillance was completed during a two-year prospective cohort study in the Calgary female high school rugby league. Results: Injury and concussion incidence rates were 93.7 injuries/ 1000 match-hours and 37.5 concussions/ 1000 match-hours, respectively. Injury within the past twelve months was associated with higher match injury rates. Higher team playing division was associated with higher training injury rates. The second project is an evaluation of the Canadian high school rugby coaching context. Objective: To describe the Canadian high school rugby coach context and evaluate intention to use a rugby-specific neuromuscular training warm-up. Methods: High school rugby coaches participated in a 2-hour “Train-the-Coach” neuromuscular training warm-up workshop. Pre- and post-workshop questionnaires were administered. Results: Pre-workshop, 92% of coaches agreed or strongly agreed they would ‘complete a rugby-specific warm-up program prior to every game and training session this season’. Post-workshop, 85% of coaches partly or strongly agreed that they “would conduct the SHRed Injuries program in every session with their students/athletes/client”. Conclusions: Injury and concussion rates in Canadian female high school rugby are high and intention to use a rugby-specific neuromuscular training warm-up was high before and after the workshop.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Shill, I. J. (2021). Injuries in Canadian female high school rugby and coach perceptions of injury prevention: Informing an injury prevention implementation strategy (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38538
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/112947
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Kinesiology	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.	en_US
dc.subject	Female	en_US
dc.subject	Rugby	en_US
dc.subject	Sport injury epidemiology	en_US
dc.subject	High school	en_US
dc.subject	Injury prevention	en_US
dc.subject	Neuromuscular training warm-up	en_US
dc.subject	Behaviour change	en_US
dc.subject	Intention	en_US
dc.subject	Coach workshop	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Epidemiology	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Public Health	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Psychology--Behavioral	en_US
dc.title	Injuries in Canadian female high school rugby and coach perceptions of injury prevention: Informing an injury prevention implementation strategy	en_US
dc.type	master thesis	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Kinesiology	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Master of Science (MSc)	en_US
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