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Ramskov D.1
1University College of Northern Denmark, Physiotherapy, Aalborg, Denmark
Background: Scientific literature underpinning prevention of injuries in sport continues to grow. Preventive measures proven effective in experimental research is however, challenged by implementation issues and understanding contextual factors. A designed-based research approach treat the problem of context and involves a relationship between researchers and implementers. Perceiving research as a continuum, design-based research could complement experimental research. The adaption by athletes, coaches and physical therapists of designed preventive interventions is a prerequisite of successful injury prevention.
Purpose: Describe the use of a designed-based research approach, in a novice runner setting using a recommendation on start to run distance, from the study “Running more than three kilometers during the first week of a running regimen may be associated with increased risk of injury in obese novice runners”, as the intervention.
Methods: The user innovation management (UIM) framework is used to conceptualize the study. The selected users are novice runners who wish to start running and are in increased risk of injury due to a BMI above 30. A total of four meetings are planned, three meetings in phase 1 and one meeting in phase 2. Meetings are carried out across a four week period, divided into three weeks in phase 1 and one week in phase 2. The two phases are separated by a 2 week period of self-structured running. User insights and visions related to the recommendation are collected during meetings in phase 1 and continuously during the self-structured running. Sketching of the enacted recommendation, is carried out during the meeting in phase 2 and subsequently presented to the users.
Results: The outcome of interest is a conceptualization of the recommendation, preferably as a product of a culmination of interaction between the original study recommendation, human psychology, users personal experiences and local contexts.
Conclusion(s): Design-based research complement experimental research, however differently it proceeds by blurring the objective researcher-participant distinction. The enactment through design-based research of interventions from experimental research might change the understanding, of both researchers and implementers, on how enacted interventions is adopted and complied with by athletes, coaches and physical therapists.
Implications: Physical therapists and researchers interested in and working with injury prevention, should consider the novel potential of design-based research. Moving the field of injury prevention forward calls for complementary methodologies to the established experimental research approach. Methodologies closer to the setting of clinical practice, which possibly also contributes positively to the translation of research into clinical practice.
Funding acknowledgements: No sources of funding has been retrieved for this study.
Topic: Research methodology & knowledge translation
Ethics approval: Due to the design of the study, the ethics committee of Northern Denmark waived the demand of ethics approval.
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