TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wilke, Jan
A1  - Niederer, Daniel
A1  - Vogt, Lutz
A1  - Banzer, Winfried
T1  - Is the message getting through? : awareness and use of the 11+ injury prevention programme in amateur level football clubs
T2  - PLoS one
N2  - A large body of evidence suggests that the 11+ warm-up programme is effective in preventing football-related musculoskeletal injuries. However, despite considerable efforts to promote and disseminate the programme, it is unclear as to whether team head coaches are familiar with the 11+ and how they rate its feasibility. The present study aimed to gather information on awareness and usage among German amateur level football coaches. A questionnaire was administered to 7893 individuals who were in charge of youth and adult non-professional teams. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the obtained data. A total of 1223 coaches (16%) returned the questionnaire. There was no risk of a non-response bias (p>.05). At the time of the survey, nearly half of the participants (42.6%) knew the 11+. Among the coaches who were familiar with the programme, three of four reported applying it regularly (at least once per week). Holding a license (φ = .28, p < .0001), high competitive level (Cramer-V = .13, p = .007), and coaching a youth team (φ = .1, p = .001) were associated with usage of 11+. Feasibility and suitability of the 11+ were rated similarly by aware and unaware coaches. Although a substantial share of German amateur level coaches is familiar with the 11+, more than half of the surveyed participants did not know the programme. As the non-usage does not appear to stem from a lack of rated feasibility and suitability, existing communication strategies might need to be revised.
KW  - Sports
KW  - Sports and exercise medicine
KW  - Questionnaires
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Germany
KW  - Lectures
KW  - Musculoskeletal injury
KW  - Running
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46094
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-460947
SN  - 1932-6203
N1  - Copyright: © 2018 Wilke et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 13
IS  - (4): e0195998
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - PLoS
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
ER  -