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Apr 24, 2024 · Background Several reviews have examined the health benefits of participation in specific sports, such as baseball, cricket, cross-country skiing, cycling, downhill skiing, football, golf, judo, rugby, running and swimming. However, new primary studies on the topic have recently been published, and the respective meta-analytic evidence needs to be updated. Objectives To systematically review ...
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It is generally accepted that physical activity confers benefits to psychosocial health, functional ability and general quality of life and has been proven to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and some cancers . Here, physical activity refers to ‘any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that results in energy expenditure’ . Condit...
The review of qualitative research covered the period from 1990 to 2004. This 15-year period was considered adequate to cover the most recent research on barriers and motivation to participation in sport and physical activity. Research papers were sourced in three ways. First, a wide range of electronic databases were searched, including Medline, C...
More than 1200 papers were identified by the initial search strategy. A total of 24 papers were accepted into the final stage of the review, with all but two published during or after 1997. Half of the papers (12) reported research where data were collected in community settings. Of the others, four were set in general physician (GP) referral schem...
This paper has reviewed the qualitative research into the reasons for participation and non-participation of UK adults and children in sport and physical activity. The review covered all qualitative papers relating to sport and physical activity in the United Kingdom from 1990 to 2004. Although we did find >20 studies, few studies met the basic qua...
This review has identified qualitative studies of the reasons for and barriers to participation in sport and physical activity. Participation is motivated by enjoyment and the development and maintenance of social support networks. Barriers to participation include transitions at key stages of the life course and having to reorient individual ident...
- Steven Allender, Gill Cowburn, Charlie Foster
- 2006
May 7, 2021 · The commercial and profile objectives of elite sport investment are distinctly different from those of community participation in sport, and so are policies that are developed for individual or community-level participation, and high performance or elite sport (Sport New Zealand, 2015; Department of Health, 2018). At the community level, sport policy is about the encouragement of people to be ...
- Hans Westerbeek, Rochelle Eime, Rochelle Eime
- 10.3389/fspor.2021.608593
- 2021
- Front Sports Act Living. 2021; 3: 608593.
May 23, 2019 · Today, a higher proportion of the population, compared to 50 years ago, is engaged in organized sports, and to a lesser extent performs spontaneous sports (Figure 3), something that Engström showed in 2004 and is confirmed by data from The Swedish Sports Confederation . Of the surveyed individuals in 2001, 50%–60% of children and young people said they were active in a sports club.
- Christer B. Malm, Johan Jakobsson, Andreas Isaksson
- 2019
Welcome to this edition of the British Journal of Sports Medicine ( BJSM ) focusing on how to maximise the benefits of physical activity for health. The content addresses three broad themes: (1) Strengthening the evidence —how physical activity is related to health outcomes; (2) Getting active, staying active —understanding factors which affect a person’s level of physical activity, or ...
Feb 1, 2019 · A systematic review of health benefits associated with participation in different types of sport and exercise reported, on average, one published study for each field and court sport [60]. The exception is soccer, where meta-analysis of five studies demonstrated a systematic increase in ventilatory capacity (VO 2max ) and decrease in resting heart rate after 6–12 weeks of soccer ...
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