The rebalancing act: Injured varsity women athletes’ experiences of global and sport psychological well-being

Trainor, Lisa R.; Crocker, Peter R.E.; Bundon, Andrea; Ferguson, Leah J.

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101713

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“…18 A focus on the meaning taken from the sample rather than the size of the sample itself is encouraged. 19 After 11 interviews, the interviewer noticed there were no new themes emerging that would add to the data. Two final interviews were done to confirm this, and the data collection process then ceased.…”

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Coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of Irish field hockey coaches

Rees

Matthews

Persson

et al. 2021

BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med

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Translating injury prevention research into practice has been challenging, which may be due to a poor understanding of the contextual factors influencing the occurrence of injury. Coaches are key figure in sporting environments and hold pivotal roles in preventing injury. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of field hockey coaches to injury and injury prevention. Thirteen field hockey coaches from the amateur Irish Hockey League were interviewed. Reflexive thematic analysis led to three general dimensions comprised five higher-order themes, categorised from 16 lower-order themes. Coaches had positive beliefs regarding the benefits of injury prevention over injury management. However, they lacked the necessary knowledge and skills to successfully implement injury prevention strategies with players. Coaches recognised the importance of empowering players to self-manage training loads to promote injury prevention but acknowledged the need to protect younger players from increased loads. Many barriers to injury prevention were not controllable by coaches including fixture congestion and poor structuring of the sport’s domestic calendar. While coaches can play a key role in the implementation of injury prevention strategies, there is also a requirement to examine how system level barriers to injury prevention can be reduced.

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Coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of Irish field hockey coaches

Rees

Matthews

Persson

et al. 2021

BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med

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“…In this context, behavioral response to an injury refers to the actions a patient takes in order to cope with the psychological reaction of the injury. The cognitive appraisal following an injury can manifest in an affection of personality factors, for instance reduced self‐perceived worth (the view of one self on his/her worth), 8 loss of athletic identity 9 (the importance sporting has on the individual’s perception of him/herself) or reduced self‐efficacy 10 (a belief in oneself as competent and effective in a given situation) 4 . The negative emotional response to an injury can include feelings of frustration, fear, anxiety, and anger and is summarized as a “U” shaped pattern: negative emotions are high close to injury, and then decrease over time, for growing again close to the resuming of the sport activity 4 .…”

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Psychological impairments after ACL injury – Do we know what we are addressing? Experiences from sports physical therapists

Piussi

Krupić

Senorski³

et al. 2021

Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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Psychological impairments can follow an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury and can impact the rehabilitation process. Our aim was to investigate experiences of sports physical therapists (PTs) in addressing psychological impairments in patients after ACL injury. We conducted four focus group interviews with fourteen sports PTs. The PTs’ experiences of working with psychological impairments after ACL injury were summarized in four main categories: (1) “Calling for a guiding light”, where PTs stated that the most common method of acquiring knowledge on addressing psychological impairments was through discussions with colleagues, and, at the same time, PTs expressed an insufficient knowledge of how to address psychological impairments; (2) “Meeting the burden of psychological impairments” where PTs stated that psychological impairments are greater than physical; (3) “Trying to balance physical and psychological aspects” where patient education and assessments were reported to be important in order to understand psychological impairments during rehabilitation; and (4) “Goal setting: a helpful challenge” where sports PTs expressed a need for specific knowledge of the rehabilitation of psychological impairments following ACL injury. To help provide the current best practice, we encourage researchers to develop psychologically centered interventions for rehabilitation after an ACL injury, and PTs to stay up‐to‐date with the literature published on the subject, including to implement eventual interventions.

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“…While results of this study provide unique insight into factors that might influence elite athlete well-being, the following limitations should be taken into consideration. Despite recent findings that connect an athlete's well-being within their sport environment to their well-being in general (Trainor et al, 2020), exploration of influences outside of sport that may impact participants' well-being were pursued less directly throughout the interviews. While participants were in no way discouraged from discussing any perceived influences on their well-being, the interview guide primarily included questions that prompted reflections of participants' lives within their sport and during their time as international athletes.…”

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Looking back to move forward: Recently retired Olympians’ perspectives of factors that contribute to and undermine athlete well-being.

Sauvé

O’Rourke

Wilson

et al. 2022

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

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The demands of Olympic-level sport create a unique array of factors that can influence athlete well-being. This qualitative study examined the perceptions of Canadian Olympians in relation to factors they believe contributed to, or impaired, their well-being over the course of their sport careers. Twelve recently retired Canadian Olympic athletes from a variety of winter and summer sports participated in the study. Participants were categorized as recently retired if they competed at one or more Olympic Games since 2010. For the study, Olympians participated in individual semistructured interviews, each of which was transcribed verbatim and subject to thematic analysis. An interpretivist approach underpinned this study. The results included nine lower order themes that were subsumed within three higher order themes. These included interpersonal (i.e., coach athlete relations, support team, training environment), national sport federation (NSF) operations (i.e., finances, planning, communication), and intra-individual (i.e., resultsfocused mindset, identification with elite sport norms, feelings of isolation vs. connectivity) factors that participants felt contributed to, or undermined, their well-being during their elite sport careers. When taken together, the results of this study point to the complexity of factors that potentially influence Olympic-level athlete well-being as well as unique insights from Olympic athletes into interpersonal, NSF operations, and intraindividual factors that are worthy of more scrutinized investigation. Implications for future research and applied practice are discussed.

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The rebalancing act: Injured varsity women athletes’ experiences of global and sport psychological well-being

Cited by 24 publications

References 40 publications

Coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of Irish field hockey coaches

Coaches’ attitudes to injury and injury prevention: a qualitative study of Irish field hockey coaches

Psychological impairments after ACL injury – Do we know what we are addressing? Experiences from sports physical therapists

Looking back to move forward: Recently retired Olympians’ perspectives of factors that contribute to and undermine athlete well-being.

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