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The demand for sports and exercise: Results from an illustrative survey [PDF]
, 2011 Funding from the Department of Health policy research programme was used in this study.There is a paucity of empirical evidence on the extent to which price and perceived benefits affect the level of participation in sports and exercise.
Fox-Rushby, J +7 more
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A study on the impact of sports participation support on the level of sports participation of urban junior high school girls in China [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyDong M, Niu M, Jiang Z, Choi Y, Li N.
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, 2020 Sports participation is an organized activity in which adolescents spend a substantial amount of their leisure time. Sporting activities are social contexts that expose adolescents to like‐minded peers and adults.
Bonnie L. Barber +5 more
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Can participation in sports during childhood influence physical activity in adulthood?
Motriz: Revista de Educacao Fisica, 2017 Aims: The promotion of sports participation during the early years of life is important not only because it promotes health during childhood and adolescence, but also because it has benefits in adulthood.
Santiago Maillane-Vanegas +7 more
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Correlates of Regular Participation in Sports Groups among Japanese Older Adults: JAGES Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Participation in a sports group is key for the prevention of incident functional disability. Little is known about the correlates of older adults' participation in sports groups, although this could assist with the development of effective health ...
Mitsuya Yamakita +3 more
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Trends in sports participation in adolescents: Data from a large-scale sample in the US adolescents
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundAlthough changes in overall physical activity (PA) have been identified in adolescents, the trend in sports participation is still understudied.
Yu Deng, Anhui Fan
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Sports participation and psychosocial health: a longitudinal observational study in children
BMC Public Health, 2018 Background It is well known that sports participation is positively associated with psychosocial health in children, but details about this association over time are lacking.
Janet Moeijes +3 more
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022 Physical fitness is a powerful marker of health in adolescents and young adults. The purpose of this study was to measure the relationships between age, sex, body mass index, and sports club participation on physical fitness.
Alexis Barbry +6 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Sports participation has potential to promote physical activity in youth. Unfortunately, sports participation and physical activity may decline from childhood to adolescence and into adulthood.
Charlotte Raadkjær Lykkegaard +8 more
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BMC Public Health, 2017 Background The number of sports facilities, sports clubs, or city parks in a residential neighbourhood may affect the likelihood that people participate in sports and their preferences for a certain sports location.
Ineke Deelen +4 more
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