The main purpose of this study was to test the Sport Commitment Model in young soccer players. Participants' ( N = 437) age ranged from 14 to 16 years. Based on the sport commitment model proposed by Scanlan and colleagues, 6 scales and 28-items constitute the Sport Commitment Questionnaire (SCQ). Results of this study provide some support for the reliability and validity of the SCQ, using a sa...

Sport is a promising setting for obesity prevention among youth, but little is known about whether it prevents obesity. We reviewed research comparing sport participants with nonparticipants on weight status, physical activity, and diet. Among 19 studies, we found no clear pattern of association between body weight and sport participation. Among 17 studies, we found that sport participants are ...

There are large variations in reported diabetes prevalence within United Kingdom (UK) populations. Linear regression was used to investigate whether population characteristics could explain the variation in prevalence between 19 practices with relatively complete diagnostic recording. Population obesity and South Asian ethnicity largely explained observed variation in prevalence (adjusted R2 = ...

a. “Consensus Statement on Dignity in Illness, Disability, and Dying and a Response to the UNESCO Universal Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights” was the product of a Colloquium of the International Association of Catholic Bioethicists (IACB), held in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), June 26–30, 2005. b. An introduction to the consensus statement is provided here by William Sullivan,...

The imposition of the new General Practice contract, with all the acrimony it has engendered, has obscured another change in General Practice, which has far-reaching potential. This is the explosive rise in job-sharing seen recently, exemplified by the figures for Devon FHSA, which has seen a rise from 4 jobsharing GPs, in two years, to 28 by June, 1991 (personal communication, Devon FHSA). In ...

BACKGROUND The number of studies that focus on factors influencing the sport participation (SP) of children and adolescents is limited. The present study examines the associations between demographic [age, gender and socio-economic status (SES)] and socio-cultural factors (SP of family, and peers and physical educator influences) and the SP of children and adolescents. METHODS A random sample...

This research studied Civil War sport in the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia. Sport was found to be an integral part of the soldier’s style of life. This was reflected through the ways sport functioned in the lives of soldiers. Sport was used as a training technique to improve performances in training tasks. During holiday seasons sport became an opiate freeing soldiers fr...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to update our original systematic review of return to sport rates following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery. METHOD Electronic databases were searched from April 2010 to November 2013 for articles reporting the number of patients returning to sport following ACL reconstruction surgery. Return to sport rates, physical functioning and...

the aim of this research was to survey effective factors influencing students' orientation to different sport events in iran. after the related literature had been reviewed and past researches on these factors had been studied, the initial list of effective factors was prepared. then, these initial factors were comprehensively reviewed by marketing and sport managers and a questionnaire wa...