This article explores the potential impact of campus recreation centers on student retention and suggests strategies for leveraging that to improve rate first-time full-time students.

OBJECTIVE To verify the influence of playful activities during the preoperative period on the anxiety of children participating in the therapeutic recreation project conducted at the outpatient surgical center of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil. METHODS The modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS) was administered to 50 children between 5 and 12 years...

The willingness of landowners to allow fee-based recreational use of their land was investigated using data obtained from a mailed questionnaire sent to landowners in the Delta region of Louisiana. Previous studies have identified that landowners often chose not to engage in recreational leasing due to liability concerns. An institutional change that reduces liability risk to landowners may inc...

Yun-Shan Yen1†, Shu-Han Yang1†, Chen-Liang Chou2,3, Daniel Chiung Jui Su1, Julie Chi Chow4 and Willy Chou1,5* 1Department of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Chi Mei medical center, Tainan, Taiwan 2Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Taipei Veteran General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 3National Yang Ming University, school of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan 4Department of pediatric, Ch...

BACKGROUND we sought to assess how impairment (physiological/psychological) and disability (social/environmental) are associated with physical and leisure/recreation activity levels and quality of life (QOL) in people with moderate/severe multiple sclerosis (MS). We conducted a cross-sectional survey at the MS Comprehensive Care Center, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, of a con...