Relationships between Youth Sport Participation and Selected Health Risk Behaviors from 1999 to 2007

Autor/inn/en	Taliaferro, Lindsay A.; Rienzo, Barbara A.; Donovan, Kristine A.
Titel	Relationships between Youth Sport Participation and Selected Health Risk Behaviors from 1999 to 2007
Quelle	In: Journal of School Health, 80 (2010) 8, S.399-410 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4391
DOI	10.1111/j.1746-1561.2010.00520.x
Schlagwörter	Ethnicity; Physical Activities; Health Behavior; Adolescents; Team Sports; Athletics; Student Participation; High School Students; Surveys; Eating Habits; Multiple Regression Analysis; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Race; Correlation; Risk + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnizität; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Mannschaftssport; Leichtathletik; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Ernährungsgewohnheit; Essgewohnheit; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Rasse; Abstammung; Korrelation; Risiko
Abstract	Background: How adolescents spend their out-of-school time represents one of the most important factors for predicting positive youth development. Sport participation relates to many beneficial outcomes. However, current economic conditions threaten high school sport programs around the United States. This investigation examined relationships by year between sport participation and numerous health risk behaviors among high school students. Methods: Data were derived from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Surveys administered every 2 years from 1999 through 2007. Items assessed were sport participation, vigorous physical activity, dietary habits, weight loss, sexual activity, interpersonal violence and suicidality, and substance use. Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to examine relationships between sport participation and each health behavior. Interaction effects tested whether relationships varied by year, sex, age, and/or race/ethnicity. Results: Analyses revealed some consistencies across years in relationships between sport participation and health risk behaviors for both sexes. However, most relationships varied by race/ethnicity. Among White students, sport participation related to multiple positive health behaviors. Conversely, African American, Hispanic, and Other athletes showed fewer positive health behaviors and some negative behaviors. Conclusions: Findings suggest that participation in organized sports affords many health benefits to most adolescents, but relates to some negative health behaviors in certain subgroups. Information regarding sport participation and health risk behaviors among subgroups across years can inform school policy, practice, and future research. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10