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SPORT AND RECREATION Sporting and recreational activities account for almost one-fifth of all injury hospitalisations in New Zealand and account for a similar proportion of ACC compensation claims. The IPRU's sport and recreational injury research programme has three main objectives: to facilitate improvements in injury surveillance, identify risk factors and evaluate injury prevention measures. Over the past year, the programme's emphasis was on new projects in the areas of water safety and non-organised sport. NON-ORGANISED SPORT Extending the Reach of SportSmart: A Survey of ACC Sport and Recreation Claimants In its sport and recreation injury prevention programme, the primary strategy adopted by ACC is coach education delivered through national sports organisations. Not all sport and recreational activities are carried out under the auspices of national sporting organisations, however, and many participants in these activities cannot be reached through coach education programmes. The purpose of this project is to provide ACC with a profile of claimants falling into this "non-coached" category - variously labelled non-organised, social, casual or informal sport - so they can better target this large and potentially growing group. Aims: - To determine the relative size and population characteristics of claimants who are reached, and not reached, through ACC's current methods of delivering injury prevention messages and programmes, for four popular sport and recreational activities (football, netball, equestrian activities, cycling); - To determine the relative size and characteristics of ACC claimants involved, and not involved, in organised activity for the nominated sport and recreational activities; and - To identify potential avenues through which to communicate ACC's injury prevention messages and programmes to those not reached through ACC's traditional approach for the nominated sport and recreational activities. Project Team: Bronwen McNoe, Melissa Purnell, Pam Smartt, David Chalmers Funding: Accident Compensation Corporation Review of Literature on Injury Prevention in "Non-Organised" Sport and Recreation Complementing the study above was a literature review. Aim: To undertake a literature review to determine what is already known about preventing or reducing injury and injury risk in those who participate in "Non-Organised" Sport and Active Recreation, either socially or informally. Project Team: Melissa Purnell, Bronwen McNoe, Pam Smartt, David Chalmers Funding: Accident Compensation Corporation |
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