Elite para athletes with active coping behaviour are less likely to report a sports injury.

Objective: Elite para athletes report a high incidence of sports injuries. Research suggests that athletes' strategies to manage adversities may influence the sports injury risk, but knowledge about para athletes' coping behaviours and their association with injuries is limited. The aim was to describe the distribution of coping behaviours in Swedish elite para athletes by sex, age, impairment, sport and to examine associations between coping behaviours and the probability of reporting a prospective sports injury during a 52-week study period.

Aligning categories of mental health conditions with intervention types in high-performance sports: A narrative cornerstone review and classification framework.

Epidemiological studies suggest that psychiatric disorders are as prevalent amongst high-performance athletes as in general populations, challenging the myth of invulnerability. Despite efforts of sport organisations to highlight the significance of athletes' mental health, it is still many times tough to combine the sport performance ethos with a discourse on mental health. This narrative cornerstone review examines challenges related to definitions and classifications of athlete mental health in high-performance sports and how these influence assessments and the implementation of interventions.

Health Systems in High-Performance Sport: Key Functions to Protect Health and Optimize Performance in Elite Athletes.

Enabling athletes to achieve peak performances while also maintaining high levels of health is contextually complex. We aim to describe what a 'health system' is and apply the essential functions of stewardship, financing, provision of services and resource generation to an Australian high-performance sport context. We introduce a fifth function that health systems should not detract from athletes' ability to achieve their sports goals.

Youth athletes at Swedish sports high schools with an athletics specialism emphasise environmental support for injury risk management: a focus group study.

In this study, we examined knowledge and understanding of sport-related injuries among youth athletics (track and field) athletes and assessed their needs in managing any health problems. Qualitative data were collected via 12 focus groups with youth athletes (16-19 years) studying at Swedish sports high schools with an athletics specialism. All focus group discussions were audiorecorded and transcribed before being analysed using a thematic analysis approach.

Elite lean athletes at sports high schools face multiple risks for mental health concerns and are in need of psychosocial support.

The combined demands on an adolescence in an elite sports high school can negatively affect mental health (eg, stress, burnout, depression, anxiety). Late adolescence is also when elite-striving athletes typically transition from junior-to-senior level programs. In addition, adolescent elite lean sports athletes have an increased risk of suffering from abnormal eating pathology.

Injury acknowledgement by reduction of sports load in world-leading athletics (track and field) athletes varies with their musculoskeletal health literacy and the socioeconomic environment.

Objective: Although injury burden prompts elite athletics (track and field) athletes to engage in injury management, little is known about their health literacy. We investigated musculoskeletal (MS) health literacy in world-leading athletics athletes and associations with prechampionship injury acknowledgement by reduction of training load in different socioeconomic environments.

Methods: Adult and youth athletics athletes (n=1785) preparing for World Championships were invited to complete the Literacy in Musculoskeletal Problems instrument and report acknowledgement of injury by reduction in training load during prechampionship tapering.

Universal prevention through a digital health platform reduces injury incidence in youth athletics (track and field): a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Objectives: To examine whether universal prevention via a digital health platform can reduce the injury incidence in athletics athletes aged 12-15 years and if club size had an influence on the effect of the intervention.

Methods: This was a cluster randomised trial where young athletics athletes were randomised through their club following stratification by club size into intervention (11 clubs; 56 athletes) and control (10 clubs; 79 athletes) groups. The primary endpoint was time from baseline to the first self-reported injury.

Changes in clinical management of diffuse IDH-mutated lower-grade gliomas: patterns of care in a 15-year period.

Background: Isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutated diffuse lower-grade gliomas (dLGG) are infiltrating brain tumors and increasing evidence is in favor of early multimodal treatment. In a Scandinavian population-based setting, we wanted to study treatment patterns over the last 15 years, focusing on the short-term postoperative course to better understand the potential negative consequences of treatment.

Methods: Patients ≥ 18 years with primary IDH-mutated dLGG grade 2 and 3, operated between January 2007-June 2021 were identified.

TTCOV19: timing of tracheotomy in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients: a multicentre, single-blinded, randomized, controlled trial.

Background: Critically ill COVID-19 patients may develop acute respiratory distress syndrome and the need for respiratory support, including mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit. Previous observational studies have suggested early tracheotomy to be advantageous. The aim of this parallel, multicentre, single-blinded, randomized controlled trial was to evaluate the optimal timing of tracheotomy.

Vulnerability and stressors on the pathway to depression in a global cohort of young athletics (track and field) athletes.

This research set out to identify pathways from vulnerability and stressors to depression in a global population of young athletes. Retrospective data were collected at age 18-19 years from Athletics athletes (n = 1322) originating from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and the Americas. We hypothesised that sports-related and non-sports-related stressors in interaction with structural vulnerability instigate depression.

Design of the performance outcome scoring template (POS-T) with example application on CO emissions reduction amongst 36 OECD member countries.

In applied program settings, such as in natural environment control and education, performance evaluation is usually conducted by evaluators considering both self-comparison and comparison with peers. We have developed the performance outcome scoring template (POS-T) for assessments with high face-validity in these settings. POS-T puts achievements of individuals or groups in context, i.

Training in spikes and number of training hours correlate to injury incidence in youth athletics (track and field): A prospective 52-week study.

Objectives: The aim was to describe the annual incidence and types of musculoskeletal injuries, and to examine factors associated with injury risk.

Design: A 52-week prospective study in Swedish youth athletics aged 12-15 years.

Methods: Data on exposure to training and injury were collected from parents/caregivers and youth athletes using a web-survey system.

'The Little Engine That Could': A Qualitative Study of Medical Service Access and Effectiveness among Adolescent Athletics Athletes Competing at the Highest International Level.

Little is known about provision of medical services to adolescents prior to participating in international top-level sports. This study aimed to investigate experiences of medical service provision among high-level adolescent athletics (track and field) athletes from three continents. A thematic narrative analysis was applied to data collected from 14 athletes by semi-structured interviews.

Lifetime Prevalence of Verbal, Physical, and Sexual Abuses in Young Elite Athletics Athletes.

To examine prevalence of verbal, physical, and sexual abuses in young elite athletes, a cross sectional questionnaire-based survey was conducted during the World Athletics under 20 World Championships. This questionnaire aimed at distinguishing between abuses perpetrated in the context of Athletics from those which were unrelated to Athletics. Four hundred and eighty athletes (52.

Assessing parents, youth athletes and coaches subjective health literacy: A cross-sectional study.

Objectives: The aim was to describe levels of subjective Health Literacy (HL), and to examine possible differences in prevalence proportions between sexes, age groups and level of educations among youth athletes and their mentors (coaches, parents/caregivers) in Swedish Athletics.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Methods: Data on subjective HL were collected using the Swedish Communicative and Critical Health Literacy (S-CCHL) instrument for mentors and for youth the School-Aged Children (HLSAC) instrument.

Interatrial Block Predicts Atrial Fibrillation and Total Mortality in Patients with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.

Background: Interatrial block (IAB) and abnormal P-wave terminal force in lead V1 (PTFV1) are electrocardiographic (ECG) abnormalities that have been shown to be associated with new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) and death. However, their prognostic importance has not been proven in cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) recipients.

Objective: To assess if IAB and abnormal PTFV1 are associated with new-onset AF or death in CRT recipients.

Statement on methods in sport injury research from the 1st METHODS MATTER Meeting, Copenhagen, 2019.

High quality sports injury research can facilitate sports injury prevention and treatment. There is scope to improve how our field applies best practice methods-methods matter (greatly!). The 1st METHODS MATTER Meeting, held in January 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark, was the forum for an international group of researchers with expertise in research methods to discuss sports injury methods.

Statement on Methods in Sport Injury Research From the First METHODS MATTER Meeting, Copenhagen, 2019.

High-quality sports injury research can facilitate sports injury prevention and treatment. There is scope to improve how our field applies best-practice methods-methods matter (greatly!). The first METHODS MATTER meeting, held in January 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark, was the forum for an international group of researchers with expertise in research methods to discuss sports injury methods.

Injuries and illnesses in Swedish Paralympic athletes-A 52-week prospective study of incidence and risk factors.

Introduction: Sports-related injuries and illnesses in Paralympic sport (SRIIPS) are a concern, but knowledge about the etiology and risk factors is limited. The aim of this study was to describe the annual incidence, type, and severity of injuries and illnesses among Swedish Paralympic athletes and to assess risk factors.

Methods: Swedish Paralympic athletes (n = 107) self-reported SRIIPS every week during 52 weeks using an eHealth application.

Developing web-based health guidance for coaches and parents in child athletics (track and field).

The aim of this study was to develop athletics health guidance (AHG) aimed at supporting coaches and parents involved in organized child athletics by providing practical advice and tools for the management of the most common health problems experienced in athletics by the 12- to 15-year olds. The study used participatory action research (PAR) and an established health service guideline development procedure modified to fit AHG development in child athletics. A sequential process consisting of four steps with associated subgoals was employed.

Running for your life: A qualitative study of champion long-distance runners' strategies to sustain excellence in performance and health.

Objectives: To investigate champion long-distance runners' strategies for managing injury and illness symptoms and staying well.

Design: Qualitative research study.

Methods: Twelve long-distance runners were interviewed immediately after having competed in World Championships finals.

Health complaints and heat stress prevention strategies during taper as predictors of peaked athletic performance at the 2015 World Athletics Championship in hot conditions.

Objectives: To investigate whether self-reported health complaints and choice of heat stress prevention strategies during the taper predicted peaking at an athletics championship in hot conditions.

Design: Cohort study.

Methods: Data on health and heat stress prevention were collected before the 2015 World Athletics Championship in Beijing, China.

Efficacy of pre-participation cardiac evaluation recommendations among athletes participating in World Athletics Championships.

Background: Athletes competing in athletics (track and field) at international level may be participating with underlying undiagnosed life-threatening cardiovascular conditions. Our objective was to analyse variations in pre-participation cardiac evaluation prevalence among athletes participating in two International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athletics Championships, with regard to the human developmental level and global region of their home countries, as well as athletes' age category, gender, event group and medical insurance type.

Design: Cross-sectional web-based survey.