Mark Roe

University College Dublin | UCD · School of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Sports Science

Background Prior to any infectious disease emergence as a public health concern, early occupational preparedness is crucial for protecting employees from novel pathogens— coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is no different. Aims This study ascertains how occupational safety and health (OSH)/Human Resource (HR) professionals in the Republic of Irel...

Objectives The aim of our study was to explore the contextual factors that affect the implementation of football injury prevention initiatives and the provision of effective injury management in the Irish Women’s National League (WNL). Methods We used a criterion-based purposive sampling approach to recruit coaches (n=7), players (n=17) and medica...

Background To manage injuries effectively, players, head coaches, and medical personnel need to have excellent knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours in relation to the identification of risk factors for injuries, the implementation of injury prevention initiatives, as well as the implementation of effective injury management strategies. Understandin...

Aim The aim of this study was to explore key informants’ views on and experiences with Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in a Dublin community with a high concentration of economic and social disadvantage and to identify feasible, community-centred solutions for improving vaccination acceptance and uptake. Methods Qualitative, semi-structured interviews...

Background To manage injuries effectively, players, head coaches and medical personnel need to have excellent knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in relation to the identification of risk factors for injury, the implementation of injury prevention initiatives, and the implementation of effective injury management strategies. Understanding the injur...

Objectives: This study aims to understand mental health issues among Irish employees arising from COVID-19 adaptation from the perspective of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and/or Human Resource (HR) professionals. Methods: Fifteen focus groups including 60 OSH/HR professionals from various sectors were conducted covering four predetermined...

Objectives To understand how essential workers with confirmed infections responded to information on COVID-19. Design Qualitative analysis of semistructured interviews conducted in collaboration with the national contact tracing management programme in Ireland. Setting Semistructured interviews conducted via telephone and Zoom Meetings. Particip...

Objectives To describe the epidemiology of back injury in elite male Gaelic football athletes between 2008-2016. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Injury data from the National GAA Injury Surveillance Database. Participants Elite male Gaelic football athletes. Main outcome measures Incidence of injury as a rate per 1000 hours of exposure...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had deleterious effects on the global population, including the employees who have had to frequently adapt their working style for the purpose of mitigating COVID-19 workplace transmission. It is important for the employers, OSH management and policymakers to understand how COVID-19 adaptation may have impacted on workplac...

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore key informants’ views on and experiences with Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in a Dublin community of low socioeconomic status (SES) and to identify feasible, community-centred solutions for improving vaccination acceptance and uptake. Methods: Qualitative, semi-structured interviews were carried out at a local...

Introduction: This study aimed to determine if work engagement played a mediating role in the relationship between teleworking and intention to quit during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also aimed to evaluate if individual (i.e., emotional intelligence, self-esteem, locus of control) and organizational (i.e., decision authority, skills utilization , wo...

Abstract Background Despite widespread COVID-19 vaccination programs, there is an ongoing need for targeted disease prevention and control efforts in high-risk occupational settings. This study aimed to develop, pilot, and validate an instrument for surveying occupational COVID-19 infection prevention and control (IPC) measures available to workers...

The emergence of COVID-19 has resulted in workplace adaptations globally. This study aims to understand the challenges faced by employees during COVID-19 workplace adaptation that could cause mental health distress. Fifteen focus groups were conducted with Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and/or human resource professionals (n=60) from various...

We investigated the pattern of injuries in elite‐level women’s football in Ireland, during a two‐season prospective injury surveillance study in the Women’s National League (WNL). Seven out of the eight clubs (271 players) in the WNL were followed prospectively during the 2018 and 2019 seasons. The injury incidence rate in matches (19.2/1000 h) was...

Background Despite widespread COVID-19 vaccination programs, there is an ongoing need for targeted disease prevention and control efforts in high-risk occupational settings. This study aimed to develop, pilot, and validate an instrument for surveying occupational COVID-19 infection prevention and control (IPC) measures available to workers in diver...

Workplaces are high-risk environments for SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks and subsequent community transmission. Identifying, understanding, and implementing effective workplace SARS-CoV-2 infection prevention and control (IPC) measures is critical to protect workers, their families, and communities. A rapid review and meta-analysis were conducted to synthesi...

Background COVID-19 has had a significant impact on workers, arising from adaptations to control measures and consequent behaviour changes that minimise disease spread in the workplace. From an occupational safety & health (OSH) perspective, understanding how adaptations and behaviour changes have impacted workers is relevant to how organisations...

Background As most COVID-19 transmission occurs locally, targeted measures where the likelihood of infection and hospitalisation may be a prudent risk management strategy. To date, in the Republic of Ireland, a regional comparison of COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations has not been completed. Here we investigate (1) the variation in rates of confir...

Workplaces can be high-risk environments for SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks and subsequent community transmission. Identifying, understanding, and implementing effective workplace SARS-CoV-2 infection prevention and control (IPC) measures is critical to protect workers, their families, and communities. A rapid review and meta-analysis were conducted to synth...

Workplaces are high-risk environments for SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks and subsequent community transmission. Identifying, understanding, and implementing effective workplace SARS-CoV-2 infection prevention and control (IPC) measures is critical to protect workers, their families, and communities. A rapid review and meta-analysis were conducted to synthesi...

Aims To compare the risk of adverse outcomes (i.e. hospital/intensive care admission, death) in population sub-groups during two periods of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland. Methods We analysed routinely-collected, publicly-available data on 67,900 people with laboratory confirmed COVID-19 infection between 29 th Feb to 14 th Nov 2...

Questionable research practices (QRPs) are intentional and unintentional practices that can occur when designing, conducting, analysing, and reporting research, producing biased study results. Sport and exercise medicine (SEM) research is vulnerable to the same QRPs that pervade the biomedical and psychological sciences, producing false-positive re...

Hamstring strains are the most common time‐loss injury in elite Gaelic football affecting over 20% of players per season. Thus, there is a need to identify factors contributing to the onset of hamstring injuries in order to inform injury risk management strategies. The current study investigated whether eccentric knee flexor strength and between‐li...

Managing injury risk requires an understanding of how and when athletes sustain certain injuries. Such information guides organisations in establishing evidence-based priorities and expectations for managing injury risk. In order to minimise the impact of sports injuries, attention should be directed towards injuries that occur frequently, induce s...

Table S2. Time-loss and player availability across age groups. Presented with corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI).

Data from the GAA National Injury Surveillance Database 2008 to 2016–Elite Gaelic Football Cohorts.

Table S1. Injury incidence across age groups. Incidence rate rate, IRR. Acute injury, A. Chronic/overuse injury, C/O. Non-contact injury, NC. Contact injury, C.

Objective: To examine the self-recalled concussion and bell ringer (BR) prevalence, reporting rates, and reporting behaviors in adolescent rugby players. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Setting: School classroom. Participants: Adolescent male rugby players aged 12 to 18 years (n = 866). Main outcome measures: Concussion and BR prevalence,...

Objective: Report eccentric knee flexor strength values of elite Gaelic football players from underage to adult level whilst examining the influence of body mass and previous hamstring injury. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Team's training facility. Participants: Elite Gaelic football players (n = 341) from under 14 years to senior...

Managing injury risk is important for maximising athlete availability and performance. Although athletes are inherently predisposed to musculoskeletal injuries by participating in sports, etiology models have illustrated how susceptibility is influenced by repeat interactions between the athlete (i.e. intrinsic factors) and environmental stimuli (i...

Introduction and Aims: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are associated with ongoing medical issues including reinjury and osteoarthritis. As epidemiological data to guide risk management are lacking in elite Gaelic football and hurling, this study reviewed ACL injury incidence in elite male Gaelic games. Methods: Eighty-three team datasets...

Study Design Prospective cohort. Objective To desribe incidence of ankle sprain injuries in elite Gaelic football. Background Ankle sprains are a common injury in field sports, however, epidemiological data to guide injury prevention programmes have yet to be reported in Gaelic football. Methods and Measures Sixteen elite Gaelic football teams s...

Purpose: To measure the extent of concussion prevalence and underreporting in adolescent rugby players and to identify the barriers that restrict their honest disclosure of concussion. Methods and materials: A concussion survey modelled from Register-Mihalik and colleagues was delivered to three secondary schools in Ireland under supervision of th...

The reported incidence of head and neck injuries in hurling is 0.12 per 1000 hours, but no previous research has quantified head impact characteristics in this sport. Here, a wireless accelerometer and gyroscope captured head impacts, in 20 senior club level hurling players. Peak linear and rotational acceleration and impact location were recorded...

Objectives: To prospectively investigate incidence and associated time-loss of lower limb injuries in elite Gaelic football. Additionally, to identify sub-groups of elite players at increased risk of sustaining a lower limb injury. Design: Prospective, epidemiological study. Methods: Team physiotherapists provided exposure and injury on a week...

Objectives: To examine selected perceptual and physiological measures to monitor fitness, fatigue and running performance during an in-season training camp in elite Gaelic football. Methods: Twenty-two elite Gaelic football players were monitored for training load, perceived ratings of wellness, heart rate variability (HRV; LnSD1), heart rate recov...

The current investigation examined the relationships between external training load measures and the session rating of perceived exertion (s-RPE) within Gaelic football players. Furthermore, we examined the effect that player experience, playing position and 1-km time trial performance had on perception of training load. Physical performance (Total...

The aim of the current investigation was to evaluate the variation in the anthropometric and performance characteristics of elite Gaelic football players with respect of position. One hundred and forty-eight elite Gaelic footballers underwent anthropometric (height, body mass, sum of seven skinfolds, % adipose tissue) and performance [counter movem...

The aim of the current investigation was to understand the impact of pre-training neuromuscular performance and creatine kinase status on subsequent training performance in elite soccer players. Thirty soccer players (age: 25.3 ± 3.1 years; height: 183 ± 7 cm; mass: 72 ± 7 kg) were involved in this observational study. Each morning prior to trainin...

The aim of the current investigation was to evaluate the variation in the anthropometric and performance characteristics of elite Gaelic football players with respect of position. One hundred and forty-eight elite Gaelic footballers underwent anthropometric (height, body mass, sum of seven skinfolds, % adipose tissue) and performance [counter movem...

Background Hamstring injuries occur frequently in field sports, yet longitudinal information to guide prevention programmes is missing. Aim Investigate longitudinal hamstring injury rates and associated time loss in elite Gaelic football, while identifying subgroups of players at increased risk. Methods 38 data sets from 15 elite male Gaelic foot...

Objectives: To examine the relationship between chronic training loads, number of exposures to maximal velocity, the distance covered at maximal velocity, percentage of maximal velocity in training and match-play and subsequent injury risk in elite Gaelic footballers. Design: Prospective cohort design. Methods: Thirty-seven elite Gaelic footba...

Purpose To examine the association between combined session rating of perceived exertion (RPE) workload measures and injury risk in elite Gaelic footballers. Methods Thirty-seven elite Gaelic footballers (mean ± SD age 24.2 ± 2.9 y) from 1 elite squad were involved in a single-season study. Weekly workload (session RPE multiplied by duration) and...

Gaelic football is indigenous to Ireland and has similar locomotion profiles to soccer and Australian Football. Given the increasing attention on long-term player development, investigations into age-related variation in Yo-YoIR1 performance may provide useful information in talent identification, programme design, and player monitoring. Therefore,...

Context: Gaelic games (Gaelic football and hurling) are indigenous Irish sports with increasing global participation in recent years. Limited information is available on longitudinal injury trends. Reviews of insurance claims can reveal the economic burden of injury and guide cost-effective injury-prevention programs. Objectives: To review Gaeli...

Background Hamstring injuries occur frequently in field sports, yet longitudinal information to guide prevention programmes is missing. Aim Investigate longitudinal hamstring injury rates and associated time loss in elite Gaelic football, while identifying subgroups of players at increased risk. Methods 38 data sets from 15 elite male Gaelic footba...