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Design, Development, and Evaluation of an Injury Surveillance App for Cricket: Protocol and Qualitative Study
Najeebullah Soomro1,2,3, Meraj Chhaya4, Mariam Soomro5
1Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health, University of Sydney, Broken Hill, Australia.
JMIR Mhealth and Uhealth
|January 23, 2019
Summary
The TeamDoc mobile app offers accessible cricket injury and workload monitoring for community sports. User feedback indicates high satisfaction, suggesting its utility for improving player safety and training management.
Area of Science:
- Sports Medicine
- Injury Surveillance
- Mobile Health Technology
Background:
- Effective injury surveillance and workload monitoring are crucial in professional sports like cricket.
- Accessible and intelligent surveillance tools are lacking at the community level.
- Mobile applications present a viable solution for monitoring cricket injuries across all levels.
Purpose of the Study:
- To present novel development methods for the free TeamDoc mobile application.
- To evaluate user experience, functionality, utility, and design perception of the TeamDoc app.
Main Methods:
- Developed the TeamDoc app for Android and Apple using C++, Qt Modeling Language, and JavaScript.
- Utilized Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) for secure server-side connectivity and database interaction.
- Evaluated user satisfaction via a modified user version of the Mobile App Rating Scale (uMARS).
Main Results:
- TeamDoc is the first standalone mobile app for recording cricket injuries and workloads.
- The app requires no supplementary devices for synchronization, enhancing user convenience.
- User satisfaction was high, with an overall mean uMARS score of 3.6 (SD 0.5), indicating app acceptability.
Conclusions:
- TeamDoc can improve injury reporting and serve as a monitoring system for adjusting training workloads.
- Electronic injury surveillance systems enhance data collection in competitive sports.
- The described methods offer a template for developing similar apps for other sports.
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