The Study on Safety Awareness of Sports in University Students

Abstract

PURPOSE This study was to examine safety awareness of sports among university students.METHODS Total 1950 university students of 9 regions responded to questionnaires on safety awareness of sports with using simple random sampling. The date were analyzed by frequency analysis and Two-way ANOVA.RESULTS The results of this study werew as follows: Fistly, male students were experienced safety awareness education more than female students. In addition, the education of safety awareness of sports took place in sports field, but most of students did not aware of safety personnel. Secondly, university students thought that sports was not safe because sports facilities and equipments were not managed and they were worn out. Thirdly, they perceived sports safety was managed generally normal. Furthermore, they perceived the aging of facilities and equipments at sports sites was major factor in the occurrence of safety accidents. In order to reduce sports safety accidents, it is necessary to facilitate safety education of sports at government.CONCLUSIONS The results of this study will be used as fundamental information to raise safety awareness in university students and to establish safe sports culture.

Sports Risk Analysis Based on Knowledge Discovery and Data Driven

“…External variables that contribute to sports injury accidents include uneven terrain, damage to facilities, a lack of instructor accountability, a faulty school safety system, and a lack of students' self-protection skills. Literature [19] believes that the main reasons affecting campus sports safety are students' physical quality, sports venues, teachers' sports safety awareness, class organization, and sports venue equipment supervision, and the scientific and organized school management. Literature [20] believes that the risk of sports activities for high school students can be roughly divided into physical fitness-oriented risks and skill-oriented risks according to the classification of projects.…”

Mediating Effect of Sports Safety Awareness between Sports Activity Habits and the Intention to Complete Safety Education among Korean Adolescents

“…Thus, we need to begin by raising safety awareness through continuous education on sports safety, paying attention to the research result that the higher the awareness of safety in sports participation, the higher the willingness to complete safety education. Examining various previous studies related to safety awareness, studies have reported that safety awareness should be continuously promoted and practiced, and safety education should be implemented in sports situations as a policy [ 4 , 13 , 37 , 38 ]. In addition, as the number of emergency cases due to cardiac arrest has increased, for example, in the English Premier League, safety training should be required to provide first aid during games when an emergency occurs [ 39 ].…”