BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) has been associated with reduced blood pressure in observational epidemiologic studies and individual clinical trials. Since PA is considered as a key component for the prevention and treatment of hypertension in children and adolescents, the purpose of this study was to assess blood pressure changes in athletic and non-athletic students before, during and afte...

objectives we aimed to perform the first such study to measure the injury incidence, severity and type as the first step in creating a badminton injury prevention program. patients and methods a prospective, longitudinal survey was conducted between april 2012 and march 2013 with 133 national tournament-level badminton players from junior high school to university in japan with the teams’ physi...

The aim of the study is to determine athlete nutrition knowledge level students educated at Hatay Mustafa Kemal University School Physical Education and Sports. A total 286 students, 156 male, 130 female, between ages 18-25 participated in voluntarily. Sports Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire (NSKQ) was used athletes' levels students. Independent T-test compare groups, One-Way ANOVA test differ...

With the invention of technology devices such as wireless headphones and portable Bluetooth speakers, teenagers have gradually become heavily reliant on music during exercising/practicing. To find underlying reason for this habit, an anonymous survey was sent out to 50 high school boarding students in America 9th December 2022 regarding purpose listening exercising/practicing, their preferences...

In this study, lists of traits typically associated with several groups of students were created using empirically supported methods. Specifically, these traits were grouped into a taxonomy based on the extent to which they were classified as being stereotypical for male student-athletes, female student-athletes, male non-athlete students, female non-athlete students, masculine individuals, fem...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the drinking patterns of club and intramural college athletes and compare their alcohol consumption, perceived norms around the excessive use of alcohol, experience of negative consequences, and employment of protective strategies with those of campus varsity athletes. PARTICIPANTS A total of 442 undergraduate students attending a private, su...

The aim of this study was to identify the effect of somatotype and body composition variables on leg explosive power of college level men students. The sample consisted of 500 young college students, divided into two groups: athletes (N=250) undergoing Bachelor of Physical Education course whose mean age 23.86 ± 0.36 years; and nonathletes (N=250) college students who do not take part regular p...

The number of underrepresented minorities (URMs; black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander) among US medical school faculty is markedly low when compared with their respective percent representation of the US population. Women URMs are doubly underrepresented, particularly as the academic rank advances from the ins...

The growing prevalence in the types, severity, and percentage of mental illnesses in young adults ages 18 to 25 years, the age group of college students and studentathletes, is being recognized. Given the National Collegiate Athletic Association student-athlete participation rates of more than 450 000 in 2011–2012, the probability of encountering 1 or more student-athletes with psychological co...