Abstract
Introduction: Snow sports including skiing and snowboarding, are common winter activities for many Australians, and participants make a valuable economic contribution to Australian tourism. There is an inherent risk of injury for snow sports participants, with a wide range of possible injury outcomes. Head injuries, which make up 14% of snow sports-related hospital-treated injuries can be associated with particularly high severity and, more rarely, death. Helmet use in snow sports has been proposed as a strategy to decrease head injury risk, but knowledge of factors associated with helmet use adoption in Australia is limited. This project investigated the reasons reported by snow-sports participants (skiers and snowboarders) toward helmet use to prevent head injury and identified barriers and/or motivating factors to helmet use.
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