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A community-based sports massage course for Aboriginal health workers
Dein Vindigni1, Lynne Parkinson, Bruce Walker
1Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. dein@optusnet.com.au
Objective:
To pilot a community-based and owned sports massage course for Aboriginal health workers (AHWs).
Design:
Descriptive, pilot educational intervention study.
Setting:
Rural, Indigenous Australian community.
Subjects:
AHWs working in a rural community.
Main Outcome Measures:
Cultural and logistical acceptability of the program to AHWs.
Results:
The course was delivered within a culturally acceptable framework with applicability for the evaluation of sports massage skills and knowledge changes in a larger sample.
Conclusion:
The sports massage course demonstrated its applicability in this rural Aboriginal community and it has the potential to be adapted and adopted in other similar settings.
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