Table 2.
Higher order theme | Lower order theme | Representative meaning unit | Number of interviewees | Total meaning units | ||
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Athlete (n=8) | Coach (n=7) | SSMS (n=15) | ||||
Athlete buy-in | Education | The data we put in will be more valuable if we understand what the benefits will be and what they are trying to get out of it. (A04) | 1 | 2 | 7 | 11 |
…some of the value in diaries is collecting them over a long long time…that’s sometimes harder to sell because people want instant gratification for effort (S03) | ||||||
Feedback | …if they think that no-ones looking at it then they’ll just give dummy responses. (S04) | 6 | 4 | 15 | 88 | |
When introduced | My thinking is that younger athletes…should be encouraged to be filling in diaries straight away so it becomes the norm not “this is all hard work”. (C03) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
Staff buy-in | SSMS buy-in | …it’s really necessary to have everyone working with the sport supporting and following the benefits of the system (S12) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Coach buy-in | …if it doesn’t have a reinforcement from the coaches [compliance] tends to fall away. (S07) | 4 | 1 | 12 | 24 | |
…within a team sport it is very much a coach-driven thing…then as a dictatorship, the coach can demand that it be done or there be ramifications to the athlete (S14) | ||||||
Key staff-member | …you do need a couple of key drivers...instilling that everyone’s got some individual obligation (S13) | 3 | 1 | 8 | 19 | |
…because the interpretation of one person to another person could be completely different, so you’ve got to control how [the data] is used and who says what to the athlete (S07) | ||||||
Peer-influence | …people stop [completing their ASRM] and then everyone stops doing it and it stops completely (A03) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | |
Reminders | I do remind them at probably two or three times a week I ask them why they haven’t filled it out (S07) | 1 | 6 | 11 | 24 | |
Reinforcement | …we’ve included both carrot and stick in ways of trying to get them to do it (C06) | 7 | 7 | 12 | 45 | |
…sometimes the athlete may want to hide something that’s going on,… they might not want the coach to know…or worried they are going to get punished for it (S08) | ||||||
Data security | …some of them feel it reflects an invasiveness in to their privacy (S14) | 1 | 1 | 6 | 11 | |
…their data is pretty much open to anyone that’s got access, so maybe that is something [to address], the security side so the athletes feel confident that if they really want to write some stuff in there they can. (C03) |
The number of interviewees and total number of meaning units contributing to each lower-order theme are presented. Participant code follows each meaning unit. SSMS=Sports Science and Medicine Staff.