Consulting the sport community for the development of an evidence-based classification system in cerebral palsy football
Classification systems play a major role in Paralympic Sports and a valid system of classification ensures a fair and equitable competition. Classification must comply with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Code, which specifies in its 2015 version that classification must be evidence-bas...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche |
| Repositorio: | REDIUMH. Depósito Digital de la UMH |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dspace.umh.es:11000/3574 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11000/3574 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Deportes paralímpicos CDU::7 - Bellas artes::79 - Deportes |
| Sumario: | Classification systems play a major role in Paralympic Sports and a valid system of classification ensures a fair and equitable competition. Classification must comply with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Code, which specifies in its 2015 version that classification must be evidence-based meaning that it is focused on the relationship between the Impairment of the player and key performance determinants. The application of the new Code is mandatory for all Paralympic Sports before 1st January 2018.The present thesis consisted in conducting a total of 53 interviews (with Players, Head Coaches, International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football (IFCPF) Classifiers and IFCPF Stakeholders) and 165 surveys completed by players that participated in the Cerebral Palsy (CP) Football World Championships at St. Georges Park in England, June 2015.The interview and survey questions covered a wide range of topics related to classification with the aim of finding out people´s opinions and concerns on how to improve the IFCPF Classification process. The analysis of the results obtained will be taken into account to perform verifications in the IFCPF Classification Rules, providing findings that could modify certain points of the classification process and current rulebook. The results from the interviews and surveys coincided in many aspects allowing to analyse both of them as a whole.Within the results obtained it has come to light that there is a need for change and innovation in the classification system. Some possible modifications will be: a reduction in the number of classes, minimal criteria impairment increasingly more rigorous, additional observation during training sessions by classifiers when having to give a class to a player, among others detailed in this thesis. |
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