Health Education for Physiotherapy in Soccer Players

INTRODUCTION. Health education based on interventions with new information and communication technologies.

OBJECTIVE. To compare the effectiveness of an educational physiotherapy intervention in footballers, in face-to-face mode (conference) versus an intervention mediated by ICT, on the risk of medical injury with the Functional Movement Screen [FMS].

MATERIAL AND METHODS. A randomized clinical trial (RCT) was carried out. The population consisted of 100 participants divided into two groups (ICT n = 50) and (Conference n = 50), with an average age of 18.2 versus 18.3 years for a conference. and ICT respectively.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Soccer
• Intervention / Treatment: Diagnostic test: FMS; Other: TICS; Other: CONFERENCE

Detailed Description

Recruitment phase: In this phase the athletes were contacted to explain the objectives of the study and the interventions; those who agreed to participate filled out the questionnaire to verify the inclusion and exclusion criteria, later those who met the criteria gave written informed consent. This phase was held in a week in the sports team club Initial evaluation phase: In this phase, the contact form and the general characteristics of the population were filled out and the initial evaluation of knowledge about sports injuries was done in all the participants of the investigation. Likewise, the participants were assigned to each of the two interventions at random. For the random assignment, the Excel 2010® program was used, where random numbers were assigned to the sampling frame.

Intervention phase: The educational intervention in health was developed from physiotherapy in each of the groups (conference or mediated by ICT) according to the allocation group as explained below.

Final evaluation phase: The final evaluation of knowledge about the prevention of injuries in football was made to both groups of the investigation.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 100
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Colombia
  • Cundinamarca
    • Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia, 057
      • Equidad Sport

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 20 years (ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: Male

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Athletes over 18 years of age belonging to the La Equidad sports club.
• Athletes with a previous sporting age of more than three years.Athletes who have taken the entrance exam for the interdisciplinary team of the previous or initial physical condition of the La Equidad sports club.
• Resident in Bogotá or municipalities of Cundinamarca.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Alterations of perception or behavior that hinder educational interventions.
• Other co-morbidities reported by the user or in the clinical history of the sport that limit the intervention (Example: hearing loss, kyphosis, memory deficit or cognitive attention, visual limitation).
• Users who do not have training in educational computer skills.
• Not having a computer with an internet connection.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: PREVENTION
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: DOUBLE

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: attend education for TICS; The educational activities were directed to soccer players belonging to Equidad, Bogotá-Colombia. Computerized media were used within the reach of footballers, applied with professionals of physical activity sciences under blind study methodology, using the new tendencies of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Health Education. The investigators counted on the advice of the group manager of knowledge of the secretary of the district of the city of Bogotá. In the educational intervention seven aspects were addressed, distributed in four weekly modules for a total of four months	Diagnostic test: FMS; The evaluation of the risk of sports injury was obtained from the score in the Functional Movement Screen test suite. The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a battery of tests that allows the integral assessment of the risk of injury, evaluating the basic patterns of movement and motor control through the performance of seven tests in which the combination of force is reflected muscle, flexibility, range of motion range, coordination, balance and proprioception; Other: TICS; The educational activities were directed to soccer players belonging to Equidad, Bogotá-Colombia. Computerized media were used within the reach of footballers, applied with professionals of physical activity sciences under blind study methodology, using the new tendencies of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Health Education. The investigators counted on the advice of the group manager of knowledge of the secretary of the district of the city of Bogotá. In the educational intervention seven aspects were addressed, distributed in four weekly modules for a total of four months
ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: attend education for conference; The intervention arm descriptionTHE CONFERENCE include face-to-face sessions focused on the four aspects mentioned above for ICT. To this end, the theoretical elements of the concepts under study were taken into account: human body movement, warm-up phases, postural hygiene, sports hygiene, nutrition and clothing. The face-to-face sessions focused on the four aspects mentioned above for ICT. To this end, the theoretical elements of the concepts under study were taken into account: human body movement, warm-up phases, postural hygiene, sports hygiene, nutrition and clothing.	Diagnostic test: FMS; The evaluation of the risk of sports injury was obtained from the score in the Functional Movement Screen test suite. The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a battery of tests that allows the integral assessment of the risk of injury, evaluating the basic patterns of movement and motor control through the performance of seven tests in which the combination of force is reflected muscle, flexibility, range of motion range, coordination, balance and proprioception; Other: CONFERENCE; The face-to-face educational intervention (conference) consisted of four educational sessions, distributed over four weeks during the sports transition period of the Equity sub-20 team. During these sessions, workshops (conferences) were held with the players following a face-to-face methodology . All these activities were concerted with the multidisciplinary team of the Equity football team and were carried out by the researcher at the University of La Sabana, a physiotherapist, who was studying the needs of the prevention of musculoskeletal injuries in football.
SHAM_COMPARATOR: attend for FMS; The FMS test was applied in two moments with three blind evaluators physiotherapists with specialization in therapeutic physical activity and master in Physical Activity and Sports, with an experience of more than 5 years in the field of assessment of sport condition and clinical experience in sport greater than 6 years in sports clubs in the region.	Diagnostic test: FMS; The evaluation of the risk of sports injury was obtained from the score in the Functional Movement Screen test suite. The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a battery of tests that allows the integral assessment of the risk of injury, evaluating the basic patterns of movement and motor control through the performance of seven tests in which the combination of force is reflected muscle, flexibility, range of motion range, coordination, balance and proprioception

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
SELF-AWARENESS QUESTIONNAIRE ON SPORTS INJURIES	A total of 17 questions were established, divided into seven categories of knowledge on the prevention of injuries, which should be addressed in the health education plan from Physiotherapy. The score was calculated as follows: each question answered correctly with the option of YES and NO had a point, the sum of the correct questions was made and divided by the number of questions. Using a rule of three this score was converted to a scale of 0 to 100.	4 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
FMS	The scores of the seven movement patterns. If the athlete is able to make the movements without any compensation, receive a score of 3. If the athlete performs the movement with one or more compensations or with a difficulty to receive a score of 2. If the athlete is unable to reproduce the requested movement, receive a score of 1. If during the performance of the test the athlete presents pain, receive a score of zero and should be referred to a specialist. The maximum score for the sum of all movements is 21.	4 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Cardenal Herrera University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: JORGE MORENO COLLAZOS, PHD, universidad cardenal herrera

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): July 2, 2017
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): October 8, 2017
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): November 15, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 25, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 3, 2018
• First Posted (ACTUAL): July 17, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): July 18, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 16, 2018
• Last Verified: July 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Soccer; public health
• Other Study ID Numbers: TERAPIA MANUAL

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: does not apply

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No