Sarah A Richmond, CEP, PhD

Applied Public Health Scientist, Public Health Ontario

Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Active & Safe Central: A resource to support the prevention of sport and recreational injury

Investigators

• Dr. Ian PikeDirector, British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC

• Dr. Shelina BabulAssociate Director, British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC

• Dr. Amanda BlackAssistant Professor, Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, University of Calgary

• Mr. John JacobSenior Director, Planning, Projects and Technology, BC Children's Hospital

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Agenda

1. Background and rationale

2. To describe the process of developing the Active and Safe Centralplatform that provides access to synthesized evidence, resources and tools for the prevention of sport injury

3. To demonstrate the interactivity of the site and the resources offered.

4. To describe future plans for the site

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BACKGROUND

Sport participation in Canada

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BACKGROUND

Sport injury in Canada

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BACKGROUND

Interventions to address sport injury

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BACKGROUND

Issues related to implementation1-4

• Lack of time

• Lack of capacity

• Lack of motivation to interpret and implement evidence of best practice

1. Leeman et al. Health Educ Behav. 2017;44(1):59-69; 2. Orr et al. Scand J Med Sci Spor 2013;23:271–80. 52; 3. Twomey et al. J Sci Med Sport 2009;12:452–6. 53; 4. Owoeye et al. S Afr J Sports Med 2013;25:77–80. BCIRPU 7

OBJECTIVE

Active & Safe Central

1. To complete a large-scale systematic review and synthesis of the literature across common sport and recreational activities.

2. Used the stages of the public health approach - outcomes

3. The evidence was used to inform the development of an end-user driven, digital platform that provides injury prevention information and resources

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PROJECT PLAN

Active & Safe Central

Figure 1. Project process model BCIRPU 9

PHASE ONE

Project team formation

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Injury researchers & practitioners

Coaches & Athletes

Parachute

BC Healthy Living Alliance

SportMed BC

viaSport Parents

BC Recreation & Parks

Association

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Prioritizing target sport and recreational activities

• Determine the sport and recreational activities included in the resource• Informal discussions

• Key stakeholders

• Review of literature

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PHASE TWO

Final list of included sports

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PHASE THREE

Evidence review, critical appraisal, synthesis

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PHASE THREE

Research questions

a. To identify the incidence/prevalence of sport and recreational injury;

b. To identify the risk and protective factors associated with sport and recreational injury;

c. To identify strategies for the prevention of sport and recreational injury;

d. To identify the facilitators and barriers to implementation of the interventions identified in c) and;

e. To identify evidence supporting evaluation of the interventionsidentified in c) other than evaluation of program effectiveness (e.g., reach, adoption, maintenance of the program post implementation

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PHASE THREE

Identifying the literature• Four data bases:

• Medline• CINAHL• Sport Discus• Physical Education index

• Grey literature search

• Key journals, reference lists

Inclusion criteria:• Published from 2007–2017• Published in English language• Included a full report or article,

was a systematic review of studies in the literature that included a search strategy

• Detailed description of study characteristics and outcomes

Exclusion criteria:• Reviews that were not focused on

the outcome (specific to each search)

• Those published in a language other than English

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PHASE THREE

Data extraction and critical appraisal

Critical appraisalData extraction

• Authors

• Year

• Outcome(s)

• Population of study

• Number of articles included

• Year range of included studies

• Effect estimates

• Conclusions

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PHASE THREE

Evidence synthesis

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PHASE FOUR

Online resource development and consultation

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PHASE FIVE

Future work

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• Project team, sport experts, BCIPRU - Samantha Bruin, Kate Turcotte, focus group members, parents, athletes, coaches

• Canadian Injury Prevention Trainee Network

Thank You!

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