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