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Concussions in Sport: What Parents Need to Know About the Youngest Athletes 

Each year in Canada, more than 200,000 athletes experience a concussion. The numbers are striking, and so is the fact that until recently, the youngest athletes were almost absent from research and public conversation about these injuries.  Dr. Miriam Beauchamp is a professor at the University of Montreal, a researcher at Sainte-Justine Hospital, and Canada…

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The Effect of Coaching in Youth Sport in Canada

February 10, 2020
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Philip Sullivan
Project Summary This project was designed to examine the impact of coaching on athlete outcomes in youth sport. The research focused on both the perceptions and behaviors of the coach, and assessed sporting and non-sporting (i.e., positive youth development) outcomes...

Examining Positive Youth Development in Elite Sport Contexts Using Photo Elicitation

February 3, 2020
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Leisha Strachan
Project Summary Previous research in the field of positive youth development has highlighted the importance of extracurricular activities, such as sport, in developing healthy youth (Larson, 2000, Petitpas et al., 2005). Further, the National Research Council Institute of Medicine (NRIM,...

Understanding and coping among adolescent athletes

January 27, 2020
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Katherine Tamminen
View the summary of this research here. Project summary Research Objectives: Participation in youth sport is associated with a variety of positive developmental outcomes among adolescents, however studies of recreational and competitive youth sport contexts have revealed stressors which include...

Aging, Physical Activity and Men’s Health

January 22, 2020
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Jordan Deneau, Paula van Wyk, and Sean Horton
Regular, meaningful physical activity provides many benefits for older adults (Bangsbo et al., 2019). However, older men can be a particularly hard-to-reach group when it comes to public health promotion and disease prevention initiatives (Bottorff et al., 2015; Carroll et...

Factors in Adopting Long-term Athlete Development

January 20, 2020
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François Trudeau
Project Summary Purpose: Several studies have reported an age-related decline of physical activity (PA). We examined the impact of four transitional periods—adolescence, the beginning of post-secondary education, entry into the labour market, and parenthood—on the PA of participants in the...

Concussion Education Reaches the Community Sport Level

January 15, 2020
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Peter Morrow, SIRC
As awareness of the management and prevention of concussions in sport increases, Canadians have more resources at their fingertips: tools to recognize signs and symptoms, medical assessment letters, sport-specific concussion protocols, and more. Yet even with the proper tools in...

An Analysis of High School Sport

January 13, 2020
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Pierre Trudel
Project Summary Among the various opportunities young people have to practise sports, school sports are of particular interest because the ultimate goal of schools is to shape our future citizens. Although school sport has become increasingly popular in Canada, there...

Relative Age, Recreation Sport Participation and Youth Development

January 6, 2020
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Nick Wattie
Project Summary In both youth sport and education, children and adolescents are grouped into cohorts by using annual age grouping policies, whereby a child must be a certain age by a specified selection date (e.g., December 315). Relative age describes...

Organized youth sport, parenthood ideologies and gender relations: Parents’ and children’s experiences and the construction of “team family”

January 6, 2020
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Dawn Trussell
Project Summary This study sought to understand how family relationships, interactions, and values are shaped by children’s sport involvement, and the social and cultural context in which their sport participation occurs. The themes that emerged from this study reflect the...

Lifespan Analyses of Social Influence on the Sport Commitment and Participation of Masters Athletes

January 6, 2020
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Bradley Young
Project Summary This research aimed to identify the nature of various social influences determining increased commitment to continue sport involvement among middle-aged and older sport participants. Research was conducted among samples from international-, national-, and regional-level masters sport (> 35...

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