Table 1:
Gender-wise comparison of coaches’ perceptions regarding sports events with injuries
| Sports events with injuries | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cricket | Hockey | Boxing | Football | Wrestling | Fencing | Skating | Soccer | Rugby | Karate | |||
| Sex | M | n | 79 | 35 | 106 | 54 | 26 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 2 | 13 |
| % | 27.7% | 12.3% | 37.2% | 18.9% | 9.1% | 0.7% | 8.4% | 4.2% | 0.7% | 4.6% | ||
| F | n | 26 | 6 | 27 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
| % | 32.5% | 7.5% | 33.8% | 13.8% | 12.5% | 0.0% | 5.0% | 6.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | ||
| Total | n | 105 | 41 | 133 | 65 | 36 | 2 | 28 | 17 | 3 | 14 | |
| % | 28.8% | 11.2% | 36.4% | 17.8% | 9.9% | 0.5% | 7.7% | 4.7% | 0.8% | 3.8% | ||
| p-value | 0.233 | 0.316 | 0.601 | 0.324 | 0.397 | 0.999 | 0.475 | 0.546 | 0.525 | 0.319 | ||
| Judo | Taekwondo | Wushu | Handball | MMA | Kickboxing | Squash | Swimming | Volleyball | ||||
| Sex | M | n | 38 | 49 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | |
| % | 13.3% | 17.2% | 0% | 0.4% | 3.2% | 1.1% | 0.4% | 1.4% | 3.5% | |||
| F | n | 9 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| % | 11.3% | 21.3% | 0% | 0.0% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.5% | |||
| Total | n | 47 | 66 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | ||
| % | 12.9% | 18.1% | 0% | 0.3% | 2.7% | 1.1% | 0.3% | 1.1% | 3.3% | |||
| p-value | 0.709 | 0.413 | - | 0.999 | 0.697 | 0.999 | 0.999 | 0.58 | 0.655 | |||
Table 1 showed that the overall, boxing was the most recommended sport by both male and female coaches in which there are chances of orofacial injuries, followed by cricket and taekwondo in decreasing order. Gender-wise comparison of responses regarding coach perceptions on sport events with injuries showed that there was no statistically significant difference among male and female coaches regarding it