Table 1 Stage 2 of the Interdisciplinary Case Analysis Procedure (ICAP). The table includes a simplified overview of the collation of quantitative and qualitative data for one 14-year-old female injured football player
From: Interdisciplinary sport injury research and the integration of qualitative and quantitative data
Level 1 | Perspective | General | Biomedical | Sociological | |||||
Level 2 | Theme | Baseline information | Injurya information | Kinematics/ movement | Strength | Interview with player & coach | Observation of training sessions | ||
Level 3 | Type of data (examples) | Age | Gender | Training | Diagnosis, duration, severity | Hip adduction range of motion (°) | Hip abduction / adduction ratio | Knowledge about injury and injury prevention | Communication between player and coach |
Level 4 | Individual raw data (value or quote) | 14 | Girl | 7,5 h of football training and 6 h of handball training per week | Partial rupture left quadriceps, 3 weeks decreased or out of training | 4,54 | 0,83 | Athlete quote: Injuries happen because of many different reasons. Mainly due to tough play Coach quote: Injuries happen because they [players] might be untrained, or train too much | The training context is relaxed; there is little interaction between the coach and the players |
Level 5 | Group reference or code | 14,7 ± 2,8 | Girls | 5,54 ± 2,10 | 0,86 ± 0,15 | Injury related to tough play and overloading | Relaxed, laissez-faire coaching | ||
Level 6 | Interpretation & evaluation | Completed growth spurt, very high training volume (> 10 h); both football and handball | Overuse injury | Individual values are within 1 standard deviation (SD) of the mean value; e.g. no values outside of ± 1SD (Reference group: females aged 14–19) | The complexity of sport injury development is not mentioned, coach and athlete mainly focus on training aspects | Lack of specific feedback and steering to achieve desired outcomes (i.e., injury prevention, effective training, desired learning) | |||