The Role of the Results of Functional Tests and Psychological Factors on Prediction of Injuries in Adolescent Female Football Players

Ulrika Tranaeus, Andreas Ivarsson, Urban Johnson, Nathan Weiss, Martin Samuelsson and Eva Skillgate
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Ulrika Tranaeus: Department of PNB, The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, 144 86 Stockholm, Sweden
Andreas Ivarsson: Center of Research on Welfare Health and Sport, Halmstad University, 301 18 Halmstad, Sweden
Urban Johnson: Center of Research on Welfare Health and Sport, Halmstad University, 301 18 Halmstad, Sweden
Nathan Weiss: Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research for Worker Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Martin Samuelsson: Naprapathögskolan—Scandinavian College of Naprapathic Manual Medicine, 114 19 Stockholm, Sweden
Eva Skillgate: Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research for Worker Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 19, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Football is a popular sport among adolescent females. Given the rate of injuries in female footballers, identifying factors that can predict injuries are important. These injuries are often caused by complex reasons. The aim of this study was to investigate if the combination of demographic (age, number of training and match play hours/week), psychosocial (perceived stress, adaptive coping strategies) and physiological factors (functional performance) can predict a traumatic injury in adolescent female footballers. A cohort consisting of 419 female football players aged 13–16 years was established. Baseline questionnaires covered potential risk factors for sport injuries, and measurements included football-related functional performance tests. Data were collected prospectively with a weekly online questionnaire for 52 weeks covering, e.g., injuries, training, and match play hours/week. A total of 62% of the players reported at least one traumatic injury during the 52 weeks. The coping strategy “positive reframing” had the strongest association with the risk of traumatic injuries. The combination of more frequent use of the coping strategy, positive reframing, and high levels of physical performance capacity may prevent a traumatic injury in adolescent female footballers. Coaches are encouraged to adopt both physiological and psychological factors when preventing injuries in young female footballers.

Keywords: athletic injury; coping; girls; soccer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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