The Prevalence Rate And Associated Risk Factors Of Sport Injuries In Middle And Long Distance Track Events Ofambo Town Athletics Club

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.