TABLE 2.
Perception and attitude of top-level karate athletes toward injury prevention
| Number of athletes Practiced injury prevention with their team (%) | Number of athletes never Practiced injury prevention (%) | p-value | |
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| Have you previously received advice about injury prevention programs | |||
| Yes | 40 (58) | 29 (42) | P < 0.001* |
| No | 9 (20.5) | 38 (79.5) | |
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| Importance of injury prevention | |||
| Low or Moderate | 7 (47) | 8 (53) | 0.841 |
| High | 47 (44) | 60 (56) | |
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| It is more important to use the training time to play karate than to conduct injury prevention | |||
| Fully agree or Agree | 34 (50) | 34 (50) | |
| Disagree or Fully disagree | 12 (36) | 21 (64) | 0.356 |
| Not sure | 8 (38) | 13 (62) | |
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| Attitude towards injury prevention measures | |||
| Positive or Very Positive | 49 (45) | 60 (55) | 0.548 |
| Neutral or Negative or very negative | 4 (33) | 8 (67) | |
*
significant difference (P < 0.05).