Key result
Coach and parent pressures influence youth sports injury risk and often compromise athlete health.
Why the study?
Little attention has been paid to how interpersonal and contextual dynamics influence the decisions of coaches, parents, and athletes to affect injury risk in youth sports.
How do interpersonal and contextual dynamics influence the risk of youth sports injuries?
How do interpersonal and contextual dynamics influence the risk of youth sports injuries?
This narrative review highlights the need for complex interventions in youth sports that prioritize injury risk awareness, effective communication, and supportive training environments.
Supports holistic youth injury prevention approaches; hypothesis-generating for interventions targeting coach/parent pressures.
Injuries are recognised in sports and exercise medicine as not isolated incidents but complex outcomes. This is because an athlete's health trajectory is understood to be shaped by dynamic, complex linkages between individual performance, biology, and the wider social and cultural contexts and systems in which individuals perform. Despite this recognition, little attention has been paid to how interpersonal and contextual dynamics can potentially affect the risk of injury by influencing the choices and decisions made by coaches, parents and athletes. To address this gap, this narrative review bridges insights from sociocultural studies in sports with the findings of sports injury research. The narrative review aims to identify and summarise how interpersonal and contextual dynamics influence the risk of youth sports injuries. The results reveal the pressures faced by athletes, often leading to compromised health. Moreover, the review underscores the importance of designing complex interventions and strategies to promote healthier practices in youth sports. Specifically, intervention programmes should prioritise raising awareness of injury risks, cultivating effective communication skills and fostering supportive training environments.
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Bjørndal et al. (2024) conducted a review in Youth sports injuries. Interpersonal and contextual dynamics was evaluated on Risk of youth sports injuries. Interpersonal and contextual dynamics, including pressures from coaches and parents, influence the risk of youth sports injuries and often lead to compromised health.
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