مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري -

چكيده لاتين :

Sports injury surveillance system as a modern preventive effort is considered essential to improve health of any athletic populations. In terms of prevention, catastrophic injuries have priority over other types of sports injuries. Therefore evaluation and monitoring of these injuries and their preventable risk factors have a high priority. Catastrophic sports injuries are rare therefore a specific research method must be employed for describing and monitoring of these injuries (negative surveillance method). To develop a surveillance system several steps should be followed including: verifying the objectives, case definitions, data source or data collection mechanism, developing data collection instruments, and field-testing. Field-testing is an essential part of this sequence in that feasibility and acceptability of the system could be evaluated so that protocols can be optimised to allow the system to meet its objectives. The field test could detect the problems at any steps in the system. The objectives of this study were to develop a data collection instruments for catastrophic injury surveillance system for wrestling in Iran and to field test this system. According to the designed protocol, data collection for surveillance of catastrophic wrestling injuries consist of two parts as follows: A) Finding the injured athletes in a systematic approach: It is involved in systematic contact with senior coaches, referees and sports directors in different areas of the country, wrestling committee of different providences, insurance data bases, news agencies and media. B) Evaluation of the possible cases: Once a possible catastrophic injury is reported, the injured wrestler, the coach, the athletic director, the responsible physician and any other medical team member, a team mate or a family member of the injured athlete (those who are available and accessible) will be interviewed. A form was developed for the evaluation of possible cases. It designed based on published literature and existing data collection instruments as well as interviews with some experts in Iran. To evaluate the validity of the questionnaire, it was reviewed by a panel of experts in Iran including some team physicians, coaches, and wrestlers. The system was field tested in Semnan and Ghom providences. Three catastrophic cases were found in these areas. The designed form was employed for the data collection. Having some limitations, the designed form and protocol can be employed for surveillance of catastrophic wrestling injuries in Iran.