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Camargo Rojas D.A.1,2, Cortes Reyes E.1, Escorcia Gómez D.C.1
1National University of Colombia, Department of Human Body Movement, Bogotá, Colombia, 2Santo Tomás University, Colombia, Faculty of Physical Culture, Sport and Recreation, Bogotá, Colombia
Background: Participation in sports is increasing, however has great benefits but can also lead to injuries in young athletes representing high morbidity and high costs (Kalh, 1990). Some authors have studied the occurrence of injuries according to body tissues affected, as in the one by Leadbetter W. et al in 2001. Moreover, Hägglund M et al in 2005, focused his research on the prevalence of injuries in young players, to the study of the characteristics and severity of injuries. In another study by Engebretsen et al in 2013 focused on the prevalence of injuries by sport and gender during the Olympic Games in 2012. The studies described, focus on the risk factors inherent athlete and some conditions training. No research study other conditions unrelated to the athlete who can influence the occurrence of sports injuries as would a study focused from the determinants of health, which are defined as those factors that may influence or positively or negatively affect health an individual and a population.
Purpose: To identify the conditions that influence the prevalence of injuries in athletes of the National University of Colombia, from the determinants of health.
Methods: Analytical cross-sectional study. Information about the prevalence of sports injuries in students of the National University and the influential determinants was collected by surveying student athletes (n = 318), interviewing coaches (n = 13) and professional sports area of the University (n = 5). Data were analyzed using the SPSS, R and Atlasti software.
Results: The prevalence of sports injuries was 60%. From multiple correspondence analysis it identifies the determinants more related to injured athletes were aged 20-24 years, inadequate lifestyles, longer exposure time in sport, inadequate methodology training, training in open places, lack of institutional support networks, low supply of health services for the athletes, shortage of university sport policies in Colombia and lack of financial, human and physical resources in the sports area. Differences are evidenced by gender, socioeconomic status and origin.
Conclusion(s): The combined interaction of the proximal, intermediate and distal determinants studied in this research, influence the health of athletes students of the National University, exposing them to suffer sports injuries.
Implications: This study generated a process of evaluation of university sport at the National University of Colombia, which was submitted to the department of physical activity and sport at the University, to make an improvement plan in the programs offered. It also allowed the physiotherapist generate tools for creating an epidemiological profile and the acquisition of inputs for the design of a program to prevent sports injuries.
Funding acknowledgements: Research was funded with resources from researchers. It received support of the Master of physiotherapy of sport and physical activity.
Topic: Sport & sports injuries
Ethics approval: The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Colombia.
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