Staying safe while staying together: the COVID-19 paradox for participants returning to community-based sport in Victoria, Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify the challenges adult community sport participants anticipate when returning to sport in Victoria, Australia, post a COVID-19 shutdown.

Methods

Using online concept mapping, participants brainstormed challenges to returning to community sport, sorted them into groups and rated them for impact and ability/capacity to overcome. Analysis included multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis.

Results

Forty-five community sport participants representing 24 sports identified 69 unique challenges to returning to sport. Eight clusters/questions participants need answered emerged from the sorting data (mean cluster impact and ability/capacity rating out of 5): Will we have enough participants? (3.32, 2.89); How do we stay safe? (3.31, 3.35);

SUBMITTER: Staley K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8652569 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature