Reconceptualisation of sport and quality of life in young athletes following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: understanding the experiences behind the numbers through a prospective mixed-methods study
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Abstract
To explore the theory of response shift in young athletes undergoing anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction (ACLR) by investigating athletes' conceptualisation of quality of life (QOL) across time following ACL injury. A mixed-methods study was conducted to understand young athletes' perceived QOL through qualitative investigation of participant perspectives and quantitative self-reported QOL ratings. 20 young athletes were purposively sampled for semi-structured interviews at two timepoints: preoperatively following ACL injury, and 1 year after ACLR. During the interviews, participants also reported their QOL on a visual analogue scale from 0 to 100. Transcripts were coded by two independent researchers. Descriptive quantitative analyses of QOL ratings and thematic analysis of qualitative data were conducted to identify mechanisms of response shift. Self-reported ratings of QOL indicated a recalibration response shift. When recalled preoperative scores were used in place of actual preoperative ratings, improvement in self-reported QOL was larger (median change: 13, range -6 to 62 vs median change: 29, range 5 to 75, respectively). Postoperatively, three processes of reprioritisation related to sport were identified within 16 interviews 1 year after surgery: (1) early transition away from sport as a priority, (2) expected transition away from sport as a priority and (3) sport preserved as a priority. Athletes' perception of overall QOL was influenced by the use of various coping strategies and engagement in self-reflection. QOL does not mean the same things to athletes before and after ACLR, and conceptualisations of QOL are influenced by complex factors. True change in patient-reported outcomes cannot be validly measured if the definitions of constructs are changing. We propose the SPARQ ACL Model of Sport Prioritisation and Athlete Reconceptualisation of Quality of life following ACL injury and reconstruction to help understand these changes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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