NCT06846008

The Effectiveness of a Coach-Focused Intervention on Preventing Knee Injuries in Amateur Football Players

The Effectiveness of a Coach-Focused Intervention on Preventing Acute Severe Knee Injuries in Amateur Football Players: A Cluster Randomized Superiority Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 320 (actual)
• Sponsor: Marius Henriksen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to find out if a coach-focused intervention can help prevent sudden-onset, severe knee injuries in youth and senior amateur football players. The main question it aims to answer is: Does a coach-focused intervention reduce the number of sudden-onset, severe knee injuries? Researchers will compare a coach-focused intervention, designed to help coaches to use effective injury prevention training, to usual football practice to see if the intervention can prevent sudden-onset, severe knee injuries in football players. Participants will: Either receive weekly information and motivation on effective injury prevention training or continue their usual football practice for 14 weeks. All will receive a weekly text message with a survey link to report any sudden-onset knee injuries among their players for 18 weeks.

Conditions

• Knee Injuries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Ahead of the Game	Evidence-based injury prevention training programs and exercises will be send weekly to participants in the intervention arm. Additionally, participants in the intervention arm will be encouraged to access a study specific online platform containing information, inspiration, pep-talks and posters on injury prevention training.
OTHER	Usual Practice	Usual training

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-23
• Primary completion: 2025-06-30
• Completion: 2025-06-30
• First posted: 2025-02-25
• Last updated: 2025-08-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark