Seidu Sofo

Awareness of Managing Sport Risks: Perspectives of Coaches and Physical Educators in Ghana

The purpose of the study was to examine coaches and physical educators’ sport risk management awareness in Ghana. Participants included 49 coaches and 65 physical educators (N = 114). They completed the Managing Sport Risk Questionnaire (MSRQ) consisting of a 39-item 5-point Likert scale. The MSRQ consisted of eight subscales: warning of risks (WR), emergency action plan (AP), providing safe facilities (SF), providing safe transportation (TR), personnel and training (PT), safe equipment (SE), documentation (DC), supervision and instruction (SI). The MSRQ had a Cronbach’s alpha of .926. The questionnaire was administered once. Frequencies and percentages were used to describe participants’ sport risk management awareness. Independent t-Test analyses were computed to determine the differences between coaches and physical education teachers’ sport risks management awareness. Results indicated that overall, 63.27% and 70.77% of coaches and physical education teachers had high levels of awareness of sport risk management respectively. In addition, most coaches (81.63%) and physical education teachers (89.23%) exhibited high levels of sport risk management awareness in PSI. The ratings of awareness among males and females were similar.