Data Collection Procedures and Injury Definitions in Badminton: A Consensus Statement According to the Delphi Approach

Development of an Online Dance Injury Surveillance System (ODISS): A Delphi Consensus, Usability, and Feasibility Study

OBJECTIVES

To develop an optimal outline for an online dance injury surveillance system (ODISS) based on expert consensus from a Delphi survey and evaluate the system's usability and feasibility within a fictional folk-dance academy setting.

BACKGROUND

Dance is characterized by intensive training and performance, which can elevate susceptibility to injuries. Robust surveillance systems are required to understand and mitigate this injury risk. Current systems exhibit limitations and lack uniformity.

METHODS

A Delphi panel of 35 stage 1 experts were recruited through snowball sampling from online professional networks, professional dance associations, organizations, and academies. Inclusion criteria were ≥18 years of age, fluent in English, and worked as dance academics or researchers, clinicians, instructors, managers, or competitive or professional dancers. These stage 1 experts were provided with a preliminary outline of a dance injury surveillance system that covered 6 domains: dancer demographics and screening, exposure monitoring, injury identification and classification, injury management, dancer recovery and system access. Stage 1 experts then voted on the importance of and provided feedback on different design elements within each domain across 2 Delphi survey rounds to determine a consensus system design outline. A pilot system was then developed and evaluated by stage 2 experts, who were end-users and included dance instructors and administrators from various dance academies/institutions recruited through direct invitations. These stage 2 experts utilized the System Usability Scale (SUS) and System Feasibility Measure (SFM) based on application to a fictional folk-dance injury scenario.

RESULTS

In survey round 1, the stage 1 experts reached consensus to include 30 elements and exclude 3 elements and demonstrated mixed opinion on 30 elements that were revised into 14 elements for further consideration in round 2. All but 1 element reached consensus to include after round 2. System testing demonstrated low marginal usability (SUS score: 58.2% ± 11.6%). Stage 2 experts agreed or strongly agreed the system was feasible for 86.7% ± 10.3% of SFM statement ratings. Key areas for improvement identified from stage 2 expert feedback were a need for an improved user interface and strategies to reduce data entry time burdens. A common suggestion was to integrate more dropdown and checkbox response options within the interface to increase efficiency of data entry.

CONCLUSION

This study established a Delphi-consensus on the essential design elements for an ODISS. Expert evaluation resulted in a usable and feasible online system that can be used to improve future dance injury surveillance research across dance populations.Level of EvidenceThe usability and feasibility portion of the study falls under Level 3 evidence according to the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) hierarchy. Whereas the Delphi portion of the study is at Level 5 Evidence on the CEBM hierarchy.

Systematic review on badminton injuries: incidence, characteristics and risk factors

Objectives

As a high-intensity intermittent sport with short and repeated rapid accelerations, decelerations and changes of direction, badminton involves high joint and muscle loads. This review aims to identify relevant injury risk characteristics and factors that facilitate developing and implementing badminton-specific injury prevention programmes.

Design

This systematic review of badminton injuries assessed the risk of bias, injury incidence, mechanism, location, type, severity, and risk factors.

Data sources

PubMed, WoS, SURF, EBSCO, Ovid and SPORTDiscus.

Eligibility criteria

Only English or German peer-reviewed articles presenting epidemiological data. All age groups, genders and levels of play were represented.

Results

Examination of 19 studies with male (60%) and female players (41%) at different player levels (age: 10-50 years). The mean injury incidence was between 1 and 4 injuries/1000 hours, whereby the incidence in the studies that were only carried out with elite players tended to be at the upper end. Lower body injuries occurred most frequently (41%-92%), including strains (11%-64%), sprains (10%-61%), tendinopathy (6%-14%) and stress fractures (5%-11%). There was a high proportion of overuse injuries (25%-74%) and a predominance of mild and moderate injuries (73%-100%). The following risk factors can only be cautiously emphasised due to the heterogeneous results: The risk of injury increases with increasing level of play and a history of injury.

Conclusion

Young players with a history of injury quickly moving to higher competition classes must be targeted with the highest injury prevention priority. Future studies should focus on improving the quality of studies by using comparable data collection methods.

Aetiology, epidemiology and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries in badminton players: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The present study has two main goals: to conduct a systematic review of musculoskeletal injuries experienced by badminton players, and to examine the management of such injuries. Searches were conducted of the PROSPERO, PubMed, Scopus, and SPORTDiscus databases, from their inception until March 2023. The papers analysed were all based on a study population consisting of individuals aged 18 years or more, diagnosed with badminton-related injuries. The methodological quality assessments was using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale and REVMAN. A total of 28 studies were included in the systematic review. In total, the analysis included 2435 participants. Of these athletes, 35.6% (1012) were female and 64.4% (1503) were male. By type of injury, sprains were the most commonly studied and the most prevalent, accounting for 36.06% of the sample. These were followed by muscle injuries, representing 23.86% of the total. Injuries to the joints were the least prevalent, accounting for 4.97% of the sample. Lower limb injuries accounted for 52.15% of the total. Of these, ankle injuries were the most common. Despite the generally low quality of the studies considered, the evidence suggests that musculoskeletal injuries, especially to the lower limb, most commonly affect badminton players of all levels.

Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020

Several sports have published consensus statements on methods and reporting of epidemiological studies concerning injuries and illnesses with football (soccer) producing one of the first guidelines. This football-specific consensus statement was published in 2006 and required an update to align with scientific developments in the field. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently released a sports-generic consensus statement outlining methods for recording and reporting epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport and encouraged the development of sport-specific extensions.The Fédération Internationale de Football Association Medical Scientific Advisory Board established a panel of 16 football medicine and/or science experts, two players and one coach. With a foundation in the IOC consensus statement, the panel performed literature reviews on each included subtopic and performed two rounds of voting prior to and during a 2-day consensus meeting. The panel agreed on 40 of 75 pre-meeting and 21 of 44 meeting voting statements, respectively. The methodology and definitions presented in this comprehensive football-specific extension should ensure more consistent study designs, data collection procedures and use of nomenclature in future epidemiological studies of football injuries and illnesses regardless of setting. It should facilitate comparisons across studies and pooling of data.

Play Badminton Forever: A Systematic Review of Health Benefits

Regular physical activity (PA) engagement has multiple benefits for individual general health at all ages and life stages. The present work focuses on badminton, which is one of the most popular sports worldwide. The aim was to conduct a systematic review focused on examining and analysing this sport and the benefits it brings to the health of those who engage in it. Examination was conducted from the viewpoint of overall health and provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art as presented in published scientific literature. PRISMA 2020 guidelines were adhered to. An exhaustive search was conducted of four electronic databases or search engines: Web of Science, Scopus, MEDLINE and Google Scholar. The search terms used were "badminton AND health" and "badminton AND benefits". In total, 27 studies were eligible for inclusion in the systematic review. After analysing the results, it was concluded that badminton engagement may lead to an improvement in all areas, the most studied being those related to physical health, in particular the improvement of cardiac and pulmonary functions and the development of basic physical capacities.