Project Partners
Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Amphia Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands.
Funding
ZonMW ‘Sportinnovator Voucher’
Background
Injury prevention programs have been shown to be effective to prevent injuries in different sports. However, there is no injury prevention program available for golfers. Therefore, the Golf Related Injury Prevention Program (GRIPP) intervention is developed following the Knowledge Transfer Schema (KTS). Following the KTS we organized 3 multidisciplinary Knowledge Transfer Groups to translate evidence into practice. The efficacy of the conducted program to prevent golf-related injuries will be studied in a randomized controlled trial.
Alongside the evaluation of its efficacy with the RCT, there is also a need to describe how the program is delivered on the golf course. Otherwise, the effect of the intervention and implementation can be over or underestimated. We developed our program for the RCT with a protocol:performance-as-imagine. But the question is: How is the program performed on the golf course:performance-as-done. Is the program performed as imagined or is something else actually happening? What is the behaviour of the golfer on the golf course with the program, what is the culture, what are contextual factors and how are the perceptions and beliefs of the golfer? Therefore, qualitative exploratory research can help to visualize the implementation and compare the performance-as-imagined and the performance-as-done on the golf course.
Study aim
The aim of this qualitative exploratory study is to explore the perceptions and experiences of golfers during their performance of the Golf Related Injury Prevention Program (GRIPP) on the golf course.