Ways to improve and delivery the guidelines more effectively
| Subthemes | Example quotes |
| Improvement considerations | |
| Have a specific policy for a delayed return to play (eg, 2 weeks post injury at a minimum) | ‘Yeah, just ….like we’ve done. Just … they should have them … a week or two weeks off. Because a lot like I said, a lot of sickness can come out a week later’. |
| Some additional information specifically for parents of junior players and for that to be included on the flow chart as well | ‘'Even though I think it’s probably not specific enough to the under 18 cohort’. ‘Well the other thing … it’s like we’ve got a diagnosis there’s the next thing that doesn’t apply to juniors because you just make that on the footnote if you have to’. |
| Insisting on detailed record keeping by teams and medical personnel | ‘And I guess too, given that it’s new, I wonder whether there’s some value in getting some data off the trainers … around … like actually evaluating its use and … and when it’s worked and when it hasn’t worked and things like that’. |
| More parent specific information (written/directed) about concussion | ‘On the top of the flowchart or … some advice to parents to say what the incidents is in … concussions in Australian Rules’. |
| Delivery considerations | |
| Information provided at registration and/or code of conduct | ‘So parents really at, even if at‥the sign up you know? At the start of each year where you sign your…Registration. Maybe it should be-____I think too as part of the code of conduct. If people‥if parents are aware of it … if most people if you know the parameters that you work in, they adhere to it’. |
| An expert/medical provider to assess what is happening in the club and provide advice | ‘There’s also the opportunity to get the professionals … to come in and you know, look at what … you’ve got set within your own club and advise you on you know, what you should be doing and they can come in assist you and I don’t think many people know …’ |
| Pocket cards with basic guidelines available | ‘Yep and I think even this pocket SCAT could be laminated'. |
| Video about the guidelines and concussion that is easily available | ‘People are pretty slack with reading things. Like, I mean you take for instance, you get a new DVD or a TV, does anyone read the manuals and know really? It’s the same sort of scenario’. |
| Posters in the club | ‘So, clearly on display. But if people see it and you keep … it’s like branding… and advertising. The more people see it … the more people will be aware of it. And adhere to it’. |
| Easily accessible on the web | ‘But it’s the sort of thing that’d be actually really good to have on our website’. |