What are the facilitators and barriers to develop a running-related injury prevention program? A qualitative study.

Background: Knowing the facilitators and barriers of the development process of prevention programs in advance may prevent setbacks to occur and may even enable strategies to explore the facilitators and to deal with and/or avoid possible barriers.

Objective: To investigate the facilitators and barriers of the development process of a running-related injury (RRI) prevention program.

Methods: This was a qualitative study conducted with semi-structured face-to-face interviews with participants from the development of the RunIn3 RRI prevention program.

RunIn3: the development process of a running-related injury prevention programme.

Background: Running is an important type of exercise to keep people physically active. However, running also carries a risk of developing running-related injuries (RRI). Therefore, effective and evidence-based RRI prevention programmes are desirable, but are scarce in practice.