Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK.
Department of Clinical Sciences, Brunel University London, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK.
BMC Public Health. 2018 Oct 22;18(1):1196. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-6089-y.
Community sport can potentially help to increase levels of physical activity and improve public health. Sport coaches have a role to play in designing and implementing community sport for health. To equip the community sport workforce with the knowledge and skills to design and deliver sport and empower inactive participants to take part, this study delivered a bespoke training package on public health and recruiting inactive people to community sport for sport coaches. We examined the views of sport coach participants about the training and their role in designing and delivering a complex community sport intervention for increasing physical activity and improving health.
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with paid full-time sport coaches (n = 15) and community sport managers and commissioners (n = 15) with expertise in sport coaching. Interviews were conducted by a skilled interviewer with in-depth understanding of community sport and sport coach training, transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis.
Three key themes were identified showing how the role of sport coaches can be maximised in designing and delivering community sport for physical activity and health outcomes, and in empowering participants to take part. The themes were: (1) training sport coaches in understanding public health, (2) public involvement in community sport for health, and (3) building collaborations between community sport and public health sectors.
Training for sport coaches is required to develop understandings of public health and skills in targeting, recruiting and retaining inactive people to community sport. Public involvement in designing community sport is significant in empowering inactive people to take part. Ongoing knowledge exchange activities between the community sport and public health sector are also required in ensuring community sport can increase physical activity and improve public health.
社区体育有潜力帮助提高身体活动水平，改善公众健康。体育教练在设计和实施社区体育健康项目中发挥着作用。为了使社区体育工作者具备设计和提供体育活动的知识和技能，并使不活跃的参与者有能力参与，本研究为体育教练提供了一个关于公共卫生和招募不活跃人群参与社区体育的定制培训包。我们研究了体育教练参与者对培训的看法，以及他们在设计和提供复杂的社区体育干预措施以增加身体活动和改善健康方面的作用。
对具有体育教练专业知识的带薪全职体育教练（n=15）和社区体育经理和专员（n=15）进行了半结构化访谈。访谈由一位具有社区体育和体育教练培训深入理解的熟练访谈者进行，逐字记录并使用主题分析进行分析。
确定了三个关键主题，展示了如何最大限度地发挥体育教练的作用，以设计和提供社区体育，以实现身体活动和健康结果，并使参与者有能力参与。这些主题是：（1）培训体育教练理解公共卫生，（2）公共参与社区体育促进健康，以及（3）建立社区体育和公共卫生部门之间的合作。
需要对体育教练进行培训，以提高对公共卫生的理解，并培养针对、招募和保留不活跃人群参与社区体育的技能。公共参与社区体育的设计对于赋予不活跃人群参与的能力非常重要。社区体育和公共卫生部门之间还需要开展持续的知识交流活动，以确保社区体育能够提高身体活动水平和改善公众健康。
