FIFA football nurse – A task sharing approach in sports and exercise medicine practice in grassroots women’s football in low- and middle- income settings. A study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

• Nonhlanhla Sharon Mkumbuzi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nonhlanhla.mkumbuzi@northumbria.ac.uk

  ¶‡ NSM and EMC are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Sports, Exercise, and Rehabilitation, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Department of Rehabilitation, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe, Department of Human Movement Science, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa, NtombiSport (PTY) Ltd. Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4982-0662

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• Andrew Massey,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation FIFA Medical Department, FIFA, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8253-932X

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• Samuel Kiwanuka Lubega,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sports Science, Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Ben Sorowen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4917-6264

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• Enock Madalitso Chisati

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ NSM and EMC are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), Blantyre, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5596-9386

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