Pub Date : 2025-04-14DOI: 10.1016/j.jsampl.2025.100098
Taylor M. Wileman, Daniel A. Hackett, Marnee J. McKay, Ché Fornusek
Background
All Abilities Touch Football provides individuals with disabilities the opportunity to participate in organised sport. However, the sport's rapid growth, coupled with the absence of a scientifically validated framework, has presented challenges in accommodating players with varying abilities while maintaining competitive balance. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of All Abilities Touch Football players through various physical fitness tests and assess player activity limitations based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health framework.
Methods
Twenty-four players participated in a battery of physical assessments, including measures of flexibility, balance, coordination, strength, power, speed, change of direction speed, and endurance. Intra-subject reliability was assessed using the coefficient of variation, and physical performance measures were standardised using z-scores.
Results
The results demonstrated considerable variation in performance, even among players with the same diagnosis. Tasks with increased motor demands such as the vertical jump and modified agility test, often required multiple attempts or assistance to complete (CV: 1.7–8.6 %).
Conclusion
These findings provide the first analysis of the physical performance characteristics of All Abilities Touch Football players, highlighting the broad range of abilities across the player cohort. The findings highlight the need for tailored strategies to enhance participation, while providing considerations for developing a classification framework that could support the growth and development of this sport.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-12DOI: 10.1016/j.jsampl.2025.100099
Lauren Ha , Claire E. Wakefield , Jacqueline Jacovou , Karen Johnston , Donna Drew , Mark W. Donoghoe , David Mizrahi , Richard De Abreu Lourenco , Richard J. Cohn , Natalie Taylor , Christina Signorelli
Background
Childhood cancer survivors are at increased risk of developing chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease risk is further exacerbated by low physical activity levels and high levels of sedentary behaviour. Yet many survivors do not meet the physical activity guidelines, and those living in regional and remote areas have limited access to exercise interventions and cancer care programs. Therefore, it is critical that physical activity programs are accessible for childhood cancer survivors, no matter where they live. This protocol describes the development and planned evaluation of ‘Making Moves’, a co-designed online physical activity program for childhood cancer survivors aged 8–21 years.
Methods and analysis
This type I hybrid effectiveness-implementation pre-post trial will simultaneously (i) test the potential effectiveness of Making Moves on survivors' physical activity self-efficacy, and (ii) explore barriers and facilitators to implementation from multiple levels (individual, provider, organisational, and community) to inform future adaptations and implementation strategies. Making Moves includes an 8-week online program offering eight age-appropriate health behaviour educational modules with guided home-based physical activity videos, and up to five tailored telehealth sessions with an Accredited Exercise Physiologist. Assessment of the primary outcome (physical activity self-efficacy, i.e., perceived ability to engage in physical activity) and secondary outcomes (physical activity levels, aerobic fitness, muscular strength, symptoms of depression, readiness to exercise, perceived enjoyment of exercise, health-related quality of life) will occur at baseline (week 0), post-intervention (week 9), and follow-up (6 months). To assess the factors affecting the program’s implementation, we will conduct a process evaluation guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research 2.0 to interview survivors and parents, and future potential implementors. To judge the potential implementation success of Making Moves, we will collect implementation data (feasibility, acceptability, costs) for our process evaluation throughout the trial.
Ethics and dissemination
Ethical approval was obtained from the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network Human Research Ethics Committee (2023/ETH01614). We will publish our findings in peer-reviewed journals, present findings at relevant medical and scientific conferences, and disseminate research updates via newsletters to stakeholders and community networks.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-08DOI: 10.1016/j.jsampl.2025.100097
Melanie I. Stuckey, Dean Kriellaars
Injury surveillance informs risk management strategies for athletes and performing artists yet the predictive value of multiple factors is understudied. This study analyzed demographic, sleep, fatigue, body composition, symmetry/proportionality, and psychological data from a cohort of circus arts students to predict injury presence and duration using regression models. Demographics alone significantly predicted injury presence (R2 = 0.344) and duration (R2 = 0.247). Additional factors explained 1.5–9.0 % of variation for injury presence and 0.0–7.8 % for duration. These findings inform the development of holistic risk management strategies for performing artists and athletes and cautions against chasing single predictor variables.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jsampl.2025.100096
Felix Oldörp , Christopher Mihajlovic , Martin Giese
Background
Inclusion in sport has been empirically investigated and demonstrated the potential for promoting inclusion. Nevertheless, a comprehensive overview of how inclusion is understood and theoretically conceptualized within the context of disability sports research is still lacking. Therefore, a scoping review has been conducted to map the existing literature concerning the conceptions of inclusion in disability sports using goalball and wheelchair basketball as examples.
Methods
For the scoping review a comprehensive search of five databases was conducted, resulting in the identification of nine articles that were deemed eligible for review. Coding of the data was performed to categorize specific elements, aiming to identify key features and concepts related to inclusion.
Results
All reviewed articles recognize sport as an environment in which people of all (dis)abilities can participate. Abilities acquired in and through sport were presented as an important element for inclusion. Inclusion concepts in the articles were based on different concepts. But the concepts were not always clearly defined. In the qualitative studies analyzed, the concepts of inclusion were expanded to include subjective feelings such as equality and belonging based on the statements of the participants.
Conclusions
The findings highlight the need for further research using qualitative methodologies that extend beyond the spatial dimension of inclusion, encompassing other dimensions to provide a more comprehensive understanding of inclusion in (disability) sport. Since discussions about inclusion concepts have been primarily driven by physical education research, future research should also focus on recreational and popular sports to strengthen inclusive sports programs.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.jsampl.2025.100094
Rachel A. Kennedy, Georgia McKenzie, Nora Shields
Background
Cost is a barrier to exercise for young adults with disability aged 18–35 years. Few studies have investigated this barrier in depth. We explored the cost barrier to exercise for young adults with disability in the context of community gyms.
Method
A mixed methods study was completed. Data were collected in three consecutive phases. Phase 1 was a survey of entry options reflecting current practice in 59 community gyms. Phase 2 comprised semi-structured interviews with 20 young adults with disability and 25 community gym staff. Phase 3 involved three focus groups with key informants (n = 20 total) from disability, recreation, and policy sectors. Quantitative data were analysed descriptively. Qualitative data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis.
Results
Gyms estimated 10 % of members had a disability. The overarching theme was a mismatch between the wants and needs of young adults with disability with what community gyms and disability systems offer. Three subthemes illustrated this: young adults need flexibility but current practices limit gym entry options; young adults seek value for money, but current practices advocate value-add; and young adults desire community participation, but current practices inadvertently reinforce a rehabilitation model. A further subtheme —financial viability—related to how recreation centres were often not financially sustainable limiting gym entry practices.
Conclusion
Despite broadly supportive recreation and policy sectors, current practices and funding systems are misaligned with the wants and needs of young adults with disability, and often incongruent with societal values of social inclusion and community-based physical activity.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-12DOI: 10.1016/j.jsampl.2025.100095
David Mizrahi , Alexandra Martiniuk , Laurence Hibbert , Dinisha Govender , Tora Sibbald , Richard Mitchell , Natalia Millard , Lauren Ha , Damian Ragusa , Kylie Brown , Ben Smith
Background
Physical activity levels are low in childhood cancer survivors. Structured physical activity programs are not routinely provided, despite being safe and beneficial for improving physical and psychological health. Innovative health promotion programs delivered online may allow families to receive equitable health support, which may foster survivors to improve their health.
Aims
To determine implementation factors of an online exercise program recruited through a community organization, and effectiveness on physical activity levels and self-efficacy for childhood cancer survivors.
Methods and analysis
The MERRIER study is a type-1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation. Sixty children (5–18 years old) who have completed treatment for any cancer type will be enrolled between March 2025 and June 2026. Participants will be randomised (stratified by age, cancer type and sex) 1:1 to 3-months multimodal exercise or control group. The intervention group will receive five online consultations with an Accredited Exercise Physiologist to provide behaviour counselling, and prescribe an individualised aerobic, resistance and balance exercise program at low-moderate intensity. The RE-AIM framework will assess reach (e.g. recruitment rate), effectiveness (e.g. physical activity levels), adoption (e.g. qualitative interviews), implementation (e.g. exercise adherence), and maintenance (e.g. self-efficacy at follow-up). Physical function and patient-reported outcomes will be assessed at baseline (T0), post-intervention (T1; week 12) and follow-up (T2, week 24). An Axivity AX3 accelerometer will measure physical activity over five-days at T0/T1.
Implications
If effective, we aim to collaborate with community organisations, who are well placed to implement similar programs to childhood cancer survivors.
Ethics
The study was approved by The University of Sydney Health Research Ethics Committee (2024/HE000391).
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Pub Date : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jsampl.2025.100093
Taylor M. Wileman, Marnee J. McKay, Daniel A. Hackett, Tania Gardner, Ché Fornusek
Background
All Abilities Touch Football provides individuals with intellectual and/or physical impairments the opportunity to participate in organised sport. However, the absence of a comprehensive framework to accommodate players with varying types and severities of impairments presents challenges for equitable participation and fairer competition. This study aimed to explore the broader challenges, opportunities and feasibility of implementing a classification framework for All Abilities Touch Football.
Methods
A mixed methods approach was employed, combining online surveys of players (n = 23), parents/carers (n = 23), coaches (n = 20) with semi-structured interviews from national level coaches (n = 4) involved with All Abilities Touch Football across Australia. Survey data were analysed using counts and percentages, while thematic analysis was applied to interview data.
Results
Survey and interview data revealed All Abilities Touch Football effectively promotes physical activity, social integration, and community engagement for individuals with disabilities. However, systemic challenges arise from managing the diverse abilities of players within the sport, with a lack of collaboration among stakeholders, inadequate educational initiatives, and limited resource allocation identified as major barriers to the sport's advancement.
Conclusion
These findings offer valuable insights into the complexities of disability sport programs, highlighting the need for targeted strategies to advance All Abilities Touch Football. They also lay the groundwork for future initiatives aimed at developing a more inclusive and structured approach to the sport's growth.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-18DOI: 10.1016/j.jsampl.2025.100092
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Pub Date : 2025-02-08DOI: 10.1016/j.jsampl.2025.100089
April-Rose Matt , Joanne L. Kemp , Andrea B. Mosler , Lucy Salmon , Diogo Almeida Gomes , Alysha De Livera , Erica Hateley , Adam L. Semciw
Background
Preoperative interventions are routinely implemented for patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA), but little is known about how they affect patient satisfaction. With THA numbers projected to rapidly increase, the efficacy of perioperative models of care should be explored. This systematic review aimed to investigate the impact of preoperative interventions on patient satisfaction following THA.
Methods
MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Register of Clinical Trials, CINAHL and Sports Discus were searched from inception to May 2023. Randomised and quasi-experimental trials of interventions before THA that reported outcomes on patient satisfaction or expectation fulfilment were included. Secondary outcomes analysed were pain, function, length of stay (LOS), and postoperative complications. Meta-analysis was performed, and the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach was used to rate the quality of the body of evidence.
Results
Seven studies were included. Participants who received preoperative interventions were more satisfied (SMD -0.54 [-0.87, −0.21] p = 0.001), and had better function postoperatively when compared to controls (SMD -1.86, 95%CI, −3.11, to 0.61, p = 0.004). There was no difference between groups in pain outcomes (SMD -0.37, 95 % CI -0.86, 0.12, p = 0.14), LOS (SMD -0.37, 95%CI -1.04, to 0.31, p = 0.29), or odds of postoperative complications (OR 0.91, 95%CI 0.54, 1.55, p = 0.73). All findings were supported by a very low quality body of evidence.
Conclusions
Preoperative intervention was associated with better satisfaction and function in patients following THA when compared with no intervention or usual care. Preoperative intervention was found to have no effect on pain, and no effect on LOS or the odds of postoperative complications when compared with no intervention or usual care. All findings were supported by a body of evidence that was very low quality with unvalidated outcome measures and thus the true effect of the interventions is likely to be substantially different from the estimate of effect.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.jsampl.2025.100091
Indianna L. Franke , Andrea B. Mosler , Brooke E. Patterson , Kay M. Crossley , Patrick Clifton , Steven McPhail , Mark J. Scholes , Matthew G. King
Objective
Describe the injury characteristics, game circumstances, and immediate action and management of injuries sustained by boys and girls participating in junior community Australian football.
Design
Cohort Study.
Methods
All community junior Australian football players from one Victorian-based league were eligible to participate if they were injured during a game and presented to the gameday first aid medics. Injured players were subsequently followed up with a phone call to undertake an injury surveillance survey. The injury surveillance survey gathered information relating to the injury characteristics, game circumstances and management undertaken. Additionally, all players who sustained a head impact were asked about the presence or absence of concussion-related symptoms.
Results
439 players sustained an injury in the 2022 season, with 354 (80.6 %) participating in the survey. The head was the most frequently reported injured body region (n = 194, 54.8 %), with approximately half (n = 101) being a diagnosed or suspected sports-related concussion. The next three most frequently reported body regions were the ankle (n = 29, 8.2 %), knee (n = 24, 6.8 %), and shoulder (n = 20, 5.6 %). Almost all injuries were acute onset (n = 340, 96.0 %) and resulted from a contact-based mechanism (94.9 %, n = 222 direct contact, n = 114 indirect contact). Tackling was the most frequently reported game circumstance resulting in an injury (n = 160, 45.2 %).
Conclusion
The head was the most frequently reported injured body region, with approximately one in every two reported head impacts resulting in a diagnosed/suspected sports-related concussion. Injury prevention strategies that promote safety when tackling and being tackled may reduce the frequency of injury, warranting further investigation.
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