Injury Prevention Programmes in Male Soccer Players: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews

Ref ID 845
First Author J. Barrera
Journal JOURNAL OF MEN'S HEALTH
Year Of Publishing 2022
URL https://www.imrpress.com/journal/JOMH/18/10/10.31083/j.jomh1810200
Keywords Protocols
Risk of bias
Musculoskeletal
Non-Cochrane reviews
Low methodological quality
Overviews/Umbrella Reviews
Problem(s) No registered or published protocol
Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality
Number of systematic reviews included 8
Summary of Findings From 8 systematic reviews of injury prevention programmes in male soccer players indexed across Web of Science, Scopus, SPORTDiscus and PubMed up to June 2021. Articles were of mixed methodological quality (AMSTAR 2) with one demonstrating high quality, two indicating low quality and five were of critically low quality. Five articles (out of 8) were rated as ‘critically low’ methodological quality, and two reviews were rated as ’low’ quality. Four of the systematic reviews had not been pre-registered.
Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results? Not Applicable
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study? Yes