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ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE ON SPORTS INJURY PREVENTION AMONG HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

S. Lakshmi Prabha

Abstract


A   descriptive study was undertaken to “Assess the knowledge on sports injury prevention among higher secondary school students in a selected school”, Idappadi. Thirty samples were selected by non probability convenient sampling technique and the data was collected with Self Administered Structured Knowledge Questionnaire. The demographic characteristics revealed that the highest 60% of them belonged to the age group of 15 years and 16 years, 72% were Males, 28% Females, Hindus 68%, Muslims 16% and Christians 12%. The area wise distribution of Mean, SD, Mean percentage of the knowledge score regarding Introduction of Sports Injury Prevention is 1.87±18.53 which is 37.06%, whereas the knowing on preventive measures is 1.61±15.93 which is 31.87, the area wise distribution related to the consequence of sports injury is 1.56±15.44 which is 30.88 and the prevention of sports injury was 1.47±14.55 which is 29.10 respectively. The overall mean score was 6.51±64.45 which was 32.55% of the maximum score, showed that they had average knowledge regarding hazards of sports injury prevention.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijmsn.v5i1.2055

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