Sports Team Participation Among US High School Girls, 1999-2015
| Autor: | Alan E. Simon, Sayeedha F G Uddin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent education Ethnic group Black People Overweight Logistic regression 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Ethnicity Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Weight status 030505 public health Academic Success business.industry Time trends Racial Groups Youth Sports Hispanic or Latino Youth Risk Behavior Survey medicine.disease Obesity United States Rate of increase Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Physical therapy Female medicine.symptom 0305 other medical science business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Clinical pediatrics. 57(6) |
| ISSN: | 1938-2707 |
| Popis: | Sports team participation has myriad benefits for girls. We used the 1999-2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a nationally representative survey of US high school students, to examine time trends in sports team participation. Data from 2015 alone were examined for current differences in participation by sex, race/ethnicity, grade, and weight status. For both analyses, unadjusted and adjusted logistic regressions, with team participation as the dependent variable, were used. In 2015, 53% of US high school girls participated in team sports. Participation was higher among non-Hispanic white (60.7%) compared to Hispanic (40.7%) and Asian (35.6%) girls, and girls with normal-weight status (58.1%) compared to overweight (50.0%) and obese (36.5%) girls ( P < .01 for all comparisons). From 1999 to 2015, the rate of increase in participation was higher among non-Hispanic black girls than non-Hispanic white girls. No increase was observed for Hispanic and Asian girls. Addressing the disparities found in team participation is imperative. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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