OBJECTIVE To investigate the longitudinal association between sports participation and parent-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study that used data drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children in waves 3 (2008) and 4 (2010). Participants were a nationally representative sample of 4042 Australian children ages 8.25 (SD = 0.44) years a...

BACKGROUND The Surgeon General has called for an expansion of school-based extracurricular sports programs to address the obesity epidemic. However, little is known about the availability of and participation in high school extracurricular sports and how participation in these sports is related to high-risk behaviors. METHODS We surveyed Los Angeles County public high schools in 2002 to deter...

School sports societies are organised with the goal to enable pupils to engage in their preferred sports. Also, this system is implemented in certain sports within school sports societies with the aim to facilitate better development of motor and functional abilities, and anthropometric characteristics. During training sessions of school sports societies, pupils should not be exposed to excessi...

Psychology and personality of individuals may have implications for choice of, and performance in sports disciplines. Individual- and group sports differ in psychological requirements, such as, competitiveness, sensation seeking and risk taking attitude, often required in sports. There is sex difference in human in these qualities, which also show association with prenatal testosterone exposure...

The physical movement and the athletic movement and, furthermore, the whole of the physical activity, are distinct from other activities due to the organization on the basis of which it is practiced, to the way it is conducted and implemented and to the objectives which it involves. The legal entities in general and the ones of the sports sector in particular have been constituted so as to cove...

Sports and sports facilities development have improved rapidly over the past years in Malaysia. However, such improvements are inadequate compared to the overall development of sports at international level. In recent years sport is getting more and more influential and it will continue to grow in importance, even for developing countries. Recent developments have witnessed the use of sports fa...

Education informatization is that computers and network technology are fully used in the field of education to achieve the education modernization. Teaching informatization is the core of education informatization. Under the perspective of education informatization, sports informatization went into people's horizons, sports teaching informatization became hotspot at the same time. The realizati...

BACKGROUND Studies evaluating the return to sports and work after shoulder arthroplasty are rare, and there are no studies evaluating return to work after total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA). HYPOTHESIS Patients undergoing TSA will be able to return to their preoperative sports levels and occupations. STUDY DESIGN Case series; Level of evidence, 4. METHODS A total of 154 patients with 170 T...

The construction of urban community sports public service is not only an important part of urban community public service management, but also an important content of building the national fitness public service system. In this paper, the author analyse the comparison between China and UK of the construction of city community sports service system in the scope of eco-civilization. With the rapi...