Health Care : Current Reviews

Sports safety: Awareness and practices among secondary school students in UAE

4^th Global Summit on Healthcare

November 09-10, 2015 Dubai, UAE

Sara Hesham Amer, Islam Al Sagheer, Rahaf Wardeh, Fatima Metwali, Aishah Alsuwaidi and Mohamed Hamzeh

University of Sharjah, UAE

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Health Care: Current Reviews

Abstract:

Sports injuries are increasingly being recognized as a significant public health issue (as well as being of clinical importance) and with impacts beyond just elite athletes or the delivery of medical care. Accordingly, it is now recognized that a strong preventive approach is needed if both the public-health goal of reduced injury rates and increased performance and participation are to be achieved. It�??s clearly an issue affecting the community as a whole since even people playing sports at home do believe these injuries are preventable yet still does not abide to sports safety. Efforts should be made in order to educate even parents to maximize prevention of sports related injuries, provide safe playing environment and universal rule changes The primary concern of sports participation is to prevent injuries and promote physical, mental, social and emotional health of the participants, which could improve longevity, maintenance of independence into older age and development of high skills proficiency. Despite all these benefits of sports participation, still exercise has a detrimental effects on health inform of injuries. We conducted our study by distributing questionnaires on a sample of over 450 secondary school students in order to find out the awareness and applications of these clearly important sports safety measures in the country that could possibly help reduce the incidence of injuries ranging from mild skin lesions to severe brain trauma. Over half the sample has suffered a sports related injury which is alarming; also the application of sports safety measures is not optimal.

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