Can you help with sport science research

[Badlad]

Hi all

I was contacted through climbing friends by Estrella Gonzales. She is looking for British cavers to help with her sport science project by filling in a questionnaire. I'll copy the introduction and link in the next post. If you are interested in helping please follow the link and complete the forms. If you don't want to, or you think this sort of thing is too woke, or just want to be critical, please just move back to the thread on asking for a guide around Easegill

I have removed Estrella's email from the public forum but if you'd like to contact her just PM me.

Thank you

 

[Badlad]

Good morning
First of all, I would like to thank you for your interest and collaboration in disseminating this questionnaire.

My name is Estrella. I'd like to introduce myself a bit better. I am a university lecturer in Sports Science, and I also carry out research in the field of sports, specifically related to the natural environment. I am also a caving enthusiast and I belong to the Cantabria caving rescue group.

I am contacting you in relation to the current research project that we are carrying out at the University of Extremadura in coordination with the Escola Superior de Desporto e Ar Livre in Portugal. Through this research we want to know the eating habits of the speleological community, as well as their training in First Aid and the prevention of possible accidents in caves. Another important aspect is the most common injuries suffered by speleologists. To this end, a questionnaire has been designed which we would like to reach the greatest number of speleologists in the caving community. That is why we ask for your collaboration both to fill in this questionnaire and to distribute it as widely as possible among your fellow adventurers.

Following this questionnaire, a series of physical tests will be carried out on caving practitioners from Spain and Portugal. So that finally, with all the results of both questionnaires and physical tests, we can design recommendations for training and prevention of sports injuries to help the caving community to achieve their best success in exploration and in the sporting and scientific field.

Below is a copy of the link to the questionnaire, which we would be grateful if you could fill in and help to disseminate. https://forms.gle/WHwAtGbFhcuSxMGu8

My sincere thanks. If you have any questions, I am here to answer them as best I can. You can contact me in mail

Kind regards

Estrella

 

[PeteHall]

I'm not sure a survey of this nature could be considered 'woke', however I did find some of the questions quite confusing and wasn't entirely sure if they all related to my last trip (that was asked about), or a trip involving camping underground (asked if you've ever).

There were also a number of mandatory questions, that had no option of 'not applicable' eg, if I wasn't camping, I didn't take camping kit; if it wasn't vertical I didn't have SRT kit; if it was only a few hours, I didn't have food or water; if I didn't have a first aid kit, it didn't have anything in. Etc.

Perhaps you could feed this back, ora lot of the responses may not be very useful.

 

[spelfish]

I agree that some of the questions are confusing and would also like more 'not applicables'. I would also have liked the questions on pain/discomfort to have been expanded to include other activities that might have led to injury (true in my case). The implicit assumption seems to be that if you have pain, it was caused by caving. Alternatively, a question on whether you attributed your pain/discomfort etc to caving might have added more information. Hope she finds my answers useful!

 

[ChrisB]

I did find some of the questions quite confusing

There were also a number of mandatory questions, that had no option of 'not applicable'

I'd be happy to help but find questionnaires like that very frustrating and don't think I can make useful responses, so I'll wait to see if she gets feedback and modifies the questions.

 

[langcliffe]

I'd be happy to help but find questionnaires like that very frustrating and don't think I can make useful responses, so I'll wait to see if she gets feedback and modifies the questions.

Same here.

 

[Badlad]

I have fed back your comments and received the following response.

Thank you very much for these comments, as they are very interesting and worth considering when analyzing the results.
These are aspects we weren't able to see at the time and hadn't received any feedback on until now.
I repeat, thank you very much for such an interesting contribution.

Kind regards,
Estrella

 

[mrodoc]

Always happy to help but describing a regular digging trip means I had to supply false answers to move on!