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Alluvial diagram showing how the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the employment of (A) all coaches, (B) Norwegian coaches, and (C) Swedish coaches. Numbers represent % of responders. Situation "Other" includes Increased workload (n = 6, all Swedish), Decreased workload (n = 10, Norwegian = 4 and Swedish = 6), and No training (n = 12, all Norwegian). Number of responses per category is presented in Supplementary Material S3-Table 1.
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Introduction
This study (i) examined Norwegian and Swedish sports coaches' employment, practices, and beliefs during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, (ii) compared these aspects between coaches in Norway and Sweden, two countries with clearly different movement restrictions strategies in this period.
Methods
An online survey was distribute...
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Context 1
... in Sports and Active Livingduring the pandemic, with most of these coaching in Sweden [19% vs. 9%, for Sweden and Norway respectively; X 2 (1, n = 348) = 12.003, p = .001]. Figure 1 shows the type of position ("Professional", "SemiProfessional", "Volunteer", and "Something else") and employment situation ("As usual", "Home office", "Furloughed", "Lost job", and "Other") amongst the responding coaches. ...
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... all 348 coaches, 39% reported that their work continued as usual despite the COVID-19 pandemic, while 29% worked from home, 17% were furloughed, 2% lost their coaching jobs ( Figure 1). Forty-seven (14%) coaches reported that their job position was affected in "other" ways than those listed in the survey (Figure 1), and the most frequent answers among those included "increased workload" (n = 6), "decreased workload" (n = 10) and "no organized training" (n = 12). ...
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... all 348 coaches, 39% reported that their work continued as usual despite the COVID-19 pandemic, while 29% worked from home, 17% were furloughed, 2% lost their coaching jobs ( Figure 1). Forty-seven (14%) coaches reported that their job position was affected in "other" ways than those listed in the survey (Figure 1), and the most frequent answers among those included "increased workload" (n = 6), "decreased workload" (n = 10) and "no organized training" (n = 12). A between-country comparison revealed that a significantly higher proportion of Swedish coaches reported that their job position remained unaffected by the pandemic compared to Norwegian coaches [56% vs. 9%, X 2 (1, n = 348) = 93.046, ...
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... the reported high levels of unemployment and loss of work hours in the leisure and entertainment sectors (3, 4) (where sport arguably can be included), it is encouraging that most of our coaches continued to work during this time. While the unemployment levels in both Norway and Sweden increased during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (16), only 2% of the coaches reported that they lost their employment, (Figure 1). However, close to one fifth (17%) of the coaches were furloughed, which testifies to the pandemic indeed having negative effects on the work hours in the profession. ...
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