Abstract:
This study was about the prevalence rate and associated risk factors of sport injuries
in Middle and Long distance Track Events in Ambo Town athletics club. The study
devoted to deal with the prevalence of injury in running. The method employed
runners, coaches, and sport managers which working with athletes at clubs selected
using purposive sampling. The study involved one club which participated in Ambo
Town athletics club .from clubs members14athletes were selected purposely and from
club 1 coach, 1 manager and 1 administrative officer were selected purposely by their
position. The Prevalence rate of injury is the total number of cases of an injury
existing in a population divided by the total population and the maximum prevalence
rate of athletes was 35.71% and the minimum prevalence rate was 14.28 with
standard deviation 6.0155. prevalence About 9 (64.3%) and 5 (35.7%) male were
participated in middle distance and long distance events in track in Ambo Town
respectively and most of them were under 16.-20 age categories and about 71.4%
were age in year. The educational level of athletes were secondary school which was
about 8 (57.1%) and Total running experience was about 9 (64.3%) were in 1-3 years.
A fracture is a crack or breaks in a bone which resulted due to Appling force to bone
and about 11(78.6%) athletes were highly affected during training. The prevalence
rate injuries of athletes in Ambo town was high in middle distance track events which
was about 37.71% male athletes and also high in long distance track events which
was 28.57% male athletes respectively. The minimum prevalence rates in middle
distance track events were 14.28% male athletes and 21.42% long distance track
events for male athletes respectively. In addition to this about 28.57% middle distance
and long distance track events were the high prevalence rates for female athletes
respectively and the minimum prevalence rates was 14.28% in middle distance track
events for female athletes. There was significant relationship between prevalence rates
and Training errors, Facility and equipment case and Nutrition case at 0.05 level of
significance. Since the p-values of Training errors (.005), Facility and equipment case
(.000) and Nutrition case (.003) were less than 0.05 there was significant relationship
between prevalence rates but the p-values of environmental cases (.103) was greater
than 0.05 which indicated there was insignificant relationship between prevalence
rates and environmental conditions which indicated the environmental conditions.
