Abstract
BackgroundResearch in youth sports is often complex. As interest in youth sports injury prevention grows, scientists should consider community priorities beyond a specific research study.Main textThis commentary discusses the authors’ personal experiences researching concussion prevention in middle school sports, as the overarching community faced multiple challenges. These challenges included a series of weather-related emergencies that resulted in a shift in the community’s priorities, multi-day school closures, and cancellations of sports activities and meetings. We discuss the importance of considering community priorities and providing support as scientists, colleagues, and members of the communities in which we conduct research.ConclusionScientists should consider the changing circumstances and dynamics surrounding community priorities in order to help drive their research-based decisions and ensure successful and respectful applications of research based on community values and priorities.
Highlights
Research in youth sports is often complex
(2020) 7:35 influence community priorities, it is important to have these discussions, while training the generation of scientists. Considering these issues in our middle school concussion prevention research We found that such discussions of the priorities of the community have been important in our ongoing research that examines middle school sport concussion prevention
Using a sample of local middle schools, we conducted formative ethnographic research and interviews with the middle school sport stakeholders, and provided concussion education and prevention materials to the middle schools. Such an approach to interact with stakeholders prior to the development and dissemination of a concussion intervention had been previously utilized in other settings (Craig et al 2019)
Summary
Scientists should consider the changing circumstances and dynamics surrounding community priorities in order to help drive their research-based decisions and ensure successful and respectful applications of research based on community values and priorities.
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