Interrater reliability of the injury reporting of the injury surveillance system used in international athletics championships

Edouard, Pascal; Junge, Astrid; Kiss-Polauf, Marianna; Ramirez, Christophe; Sousa, Monica; Timpka, Toomas; Branco, Pedro

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Edouard, Pascal

Junge, Astrid

Kiss-Polauf, Marianna

Abstract(s)

Abstract Objectives The quality of epidemiological injury data depends on the reliability of reporting to an injury surveillance system. Ascertaining whether all physicians/physiotherapists report the same information for the same injury case is of major interest to determine data validity. The aim of this study was therefore to analyse the data collection reliability through the analysis of the interrater reliability. Design Cross-sectional survey. Methods During the 2016 European Athletics Advanced Athletics Medicine Course in Amsterdam, all national medical teams were asked to complete seven virtual case reports on a standardised injury report form using the same definitions and classifications of injuries as the international athletics championships injury surveillance protocol. The completeness of data and the Fleiss’ kappa coefficients for the inter-rater reliability were calculated for: sex, age, event, circumstance, location, type, assumed cause and estimated time-loss. Results Forty-one team physicians and physiotherapists of national medical teams participated in the study (response rate 89.1%). Data completeness was 96.9%. The Fleiss’ kappa coefficients were: almost perfect for sex (k = 1), injury location (k = 0.991), event (k = 0.953), circumstance (k = 0.942), and age (k = 0.870), moderate for type (k = 0.507), fair for assumed cause (k = 0.394), and poor for estimated time-loss (k = 0.155). Conclusions The injury surveillance system used during international athletics championships provided reliable data for “sex”, “location”, “event”, “circumstance”, and “age”. More caution should be taken for “assumed cause” and “type”, and even more for “estimated time-loss”. This injury surveillance system displays satisfactory data quality (reliable data and high data completeness), and thus, can be recommended as tool to collect epidemiology information on injuries during international athletics championships.

Keywords

Injury surveillance Methodology Prospective studies Epidemiology Track and field Sports injury prevention

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/13619

Citation

Pascal Edouard, Astrid Junge, Marianna Kiss-Polauf, Christophe Ramirez, Monica Sousa, Toomas Timpka, Pedro Branco, Interrater reliability of the injury reporting of the injury surveillance system used in international athletics championships, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Volume 21, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 894-898, ISSN 1440-2440, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2018.02.001.