Replication Data For Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: Identifying Information Sources And Risk Factor Awareness Among The General Population

Creating awareness about a disorder is important for prevention from the perspective of public health. However, for sports injuries, like the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, there is no study which has investigated the awareness of risk factors for the injury and prevention methods among the general population, to the best of our knowledge. The sources of information among the population are also unclear. The purpose of present study was to identify these aspects of public awareness about the ACL injury. A questionnaire was randomly distributed among the general population registered with a web based questionnaire supplier, to recruit 900 participants who were aware about the ACL injury. The questionnaire consisted of two parts: Question 1 asked them about their sources of information regarding the ACL injury; Question 2 asked them about the risk factors for ACL injury. Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine the information sources that provide a good understanding of the risk factors. The leading source of information for ACL injury was television (57.0%). However, the results of logistic regression analysis revealed that television was not an effective medium to create awareness about the risk factors, among the general population. Instead “Lecture by a coach”, “Classroom session on Health”, and “Newspaper” were significantly effective in creating a good awareness of the risk factors (p < 0.001).