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@article{ Hassan2020,
title = {News Reporting of Injury Prevalence in Football: A Study of Selected Nigerian Online Newspapers},
author = {Hassan, Isyaku and Musa, Rabiu Muazu and Abdullah, Mohamad Razali and Hidayah, Ahmad Taufik and Azmi, Mohd Nazri Latiff},
journal = {Media Watch},
number = {2},
pages = {323-336},
volume = {11},
year = {2020},
issn = {0976-0911},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.15655/mw/2020/v11i2/195652},
abstract = {Despite the importance of football as an effective means of developing physical activity and fitness, routine data of football-related injuries are either inadequate or underreported, particularly in Nigeria. To develop an understanding of the football-related injuries and determine the prospects for prevention, logical and useful information specifying the occurrence of these incidents is necessary. Using a content analysis of 94 football-related news articles, this study identified the most commonly reported football-related injuries in Nigerian newspapers and determined their extent of coverage from agenda-setting perspectives. Altogether, five national newspapers with the highest readership and online popularity were selected using purposive sampling. Only football-related news articles were collected from the respective websites of the newspapers using internet-based searches between January 2015 and September 2019.The findings showed that knee, ankle, and hamstring are the most commonly affected locations in football-related injuries according to the news reports.This study shows that media-based analysis of football-related injuries could supplement other methods, such as prospective and retrospective analyses, particularly in the Nigerian context.},
}