Experiences of Injuries and Injury Reporting among Swedish Skydivers
Table 1
The interview guide.
Yourself as a skydiver
What constitutes skydiving culture for you
Injuries during skydiving?
(i) Favorite way to skydive (ii) Positive and negative aspects as a skydiver (iii) Deliberately putting yourself in potentially dangerous situations (iv) Affected by others to stretch limits
(i) Skydiving culture versus other sport cultures (ii) In your own club, other clubs, internationally (iii) Experiences while skydiving or being on other drop zones
(i) Descriptions of events leading to injury, the injury itself (ii) Emergency procedures (iii) Incidents/near injury events (iv) Thoughts and feelings before and after incidents and injury (v) Injury reported to SFF (vi) If injured, why continue
Risk behavior—yours and others
Differences between male and female skydivers
Safety issues
(i) Reporting, grounding (ii) Discussions on club or national level (iii) Talking to risk takers, what do you say and how do they react
(i) The way to skydive (ii) Risk taking (iii) Attitudes (iv) Injuries (v) Skill and expertise
(i) Strategies for your own safety (ii) Strategies to identify others’ safety issues (iii) Suggestions or ideas for improvement of safety issues (iv) Educative efforts (v) Rules and regulations