Erratum: An overview of Australian exercise and sport science degrees

Australian Association for Exercise and Sport Science position stand: optimising cancer outcomes through exercise.

Cancer represents a major public health concern in Australia. Causes of cancer are multifactorial with lack of physical activity being considered one of the known risk factors, particularly for breast and colorectal cancers. Participating in exercise has also been associated with benefits during and following treatment for cancer, including improvements in psychosocial and physical outcomes, as...

Genetic Research and Testing in Sport and Exercise Science British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Position Stand

Update--Ethical standards in sport and exercise science research.

3. The research protocol . The study, research design and statistical analysis must be clearly described, justifi able and appropriate. In drawing up the research protocol, the researcher must; a) consider ethical issues in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, b) provide information regarding funding, sponsors, institutional affi liations, other potential confl icts of interest, c) cons...

Ethical standards in sport and exercise science research: 2014 update·.

For publication in the International Journal of Sports Medicine (IJSM), studies involving human participants or animals must have been conducted in accordance with recognised ethical standards and national/international laws. At the very first submission stage, authors are required to confirm that these standards and laws have been adhered to by reading, and formally citing, this editorial with...

Improving Meta-analyses in Sport and Exercise Science

Flaws in recent meta-analyses in our disciplines include extraction of inappropriate measures or units from published studies, inadequate documentation of the standard errors used to weight the effects, deficiencies in accounting for heterogeneity in the effect between studies, inappropriate treatment of multiple measures from the same studies, absent or deficient analysis of publication bias, ...