How do sports injury epidemiological outcomes vary depending on athletes' response rates to a weekly online questionnaire? An analysis of 39-week follow-up from 391 athletics (track and field) athletes
Author
Edouard, Pascal
Dandrieux, Pierre-Eddy
Blanco de Tena Davila, David
Tondut, Jeanne
Chapon, Joris
Navarro, Laurent
Junge, Astrid
Hollander, Karsten
Publication date
2024ISSN
0905-7188
Abstract
Objective: To explore how sports injury epidemiological outcomes (i.e., prevalence, average prevalence, incidence, burden, and time to first injury) vary depending on the response rates to a weekly online self-reported questionnaire for athletes. Methods: Weekly information on athletics injuries and exposure from 391 athletics (track and field) athletes was prospectively collected over 39 weeks (control group of the PREVATHLE randomized controlled trial) using an online self-reported questionnaire. The data were used to calculate sports injury epidemiological outcomes (i.e., prevalence, average prevalence, incidence, burden, and time to first injury) for sub-groups with different minimum individual athletes' response rates (i.e., from at least 100%, at least 97%, at least 95%, … to at least 0% response rate). We then calculated the relative variation between each sub-group and the sub-group with a 100% response rate as a reference. A substantial variation was considered when the relative variation was greater than one SD or 95% CI of the respective epidemiological outcome calculated in the sub-group with a 100% response rate. Results: Of 15 249 expected weekly questionnaires, 7209 were completed and returned, resulting in an overall response rate of 47.3%. The individual athletes' response rates ranged from 0% (n = 51) to 100% (n = 100). The prevalence, average weekly prevalence, and time to first injury only varied substantially for the sub-groups below a 5%, 10% and 18% minimum individual response rate, respectively. The incidence and injury burden showed substantial variations for all sub-groups with a response rate below 100%. Conclusions: Epidemiological outcomes varied depending on the minimum individual athletes' response rate, with injury prevalence, average weekly prevalence, and time to first injury varying less than injury incidence and injury burden. This highlights the need to take into account the individual response rate when calculating epidemiological outcomes, and determining the optimal study-specific cut-offs of the minimum individual response rate needed.
Document Type
Article
Language
English
Subject (CDU)
61 - Medical sciences
616.7 - Pathology of the organs of locomotion. Skeletal and locomotor systems
Keywords
Gestió de dades
Epidemiologia
Seguiment
Lesions esportives
Estadístiques
Atletisme
Gestión de datos
epidemiología
Seguimiento
Lesiones deportivas
Estadística
Atletismo
Data management
Epidemiology
Monitoring
Sports injury
Statistics
Track and field
Pages
11
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Collection
34; 3
Is part of
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports
Citation
Edouard, Pascal; Dandrieux, Pierre-Eddy; Blanco de Tena Davila, David [et al.]. How do sports injury epidemiological outcomes vary depending on athletes' response rates to a weekly online questionnaire? An analysis of 39-week follow-up from 391 athletics (track and field) athletes. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 2024, 34(3), e14589. Disponible en: <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sms.14589>. Fecha de acceso: 5 ab. 2024. DOI: 10.1111/sms.14589
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