Abstract
This study was carried out to find out the burnout levels of judo coaches in COVID-19 period and to show how they will approach their profession and athletes in the period after the pandemic. 136 judo coaches from different coaching levels participated in the study. Maslach Burnout Inventory was used in the study. In addition, 3 qualitative questions were prepared by the researchers to find out the emotions of coaches during and after the pandemic and how they approached their athletes. IBM SPSS 22 statistical program was used to analyze the data in the study. Since the data were not normally distributed, non-parametric Mann Whitney U was used in paired group comparisons, while Kruskal Wallis H test was used for the comparison of more than two groups and significance level was taken as p < .05. Content analysis method was used to analyze the 3 qualitative questions. As a result, burnout levels of the judo coaches in the study were found to be low. No significant difference was found between the variables of gender, age and coaching level and burnout level. In addition, while coaches stated that they missed their profession and were waiting excitedly for trainings to start, more than half of them stated that their approaches to athletes will change after the pandemic.
Highlights
Novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which emerged in the last months of 2019, affected the countries in Asia, Ocenia, North, Middle and South America as well as most European countries due to the increase in the rate of spread in the first months of 2020 (WHO, 2020)
This study was carried out to find out the burnout levels of judo coaches in COVID-19 period and to show how they will approach their profession and athletes in the period after the pandemic. 136 judo coaches from different coaching levels participated in the study
A mixed method was used in this study to find out the burnout levels of judo coaches from different coaching levels during the COVID-19 pandemic period
Summary
Novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which emerged in the last months of 2019, affected the countries in Asia, Ocenia, North, Middle and South America as well as most European countries due to the increase in the rate of spread in the first months of 2020 (WHO, 2020). It has been reported that the transfer of COVID-19 will be quite easy in sports environments, especially in contact sports, due to its long incubation period, being viable, showing milder symptoms and transmission characteristics (Wong et al, 2020). Due to these characteristics of the virus, the postponement or cancellation of the events planned to be carried out in the national and international arena has become a current issue because protecting athletes’ health and taking precautions to prevent them from being injured or getting sick is one of the main goals of sport. Even the Summer Olympic Games, which were not postponed due to any medical reasons in history and which were planned to be held in Japan in 2020 and considered as the world’s largest sport organization, have been postponed until June 2021 (Dhillon, 2020)
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