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This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and efectiveness of an injury prevention programme for Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) students, consisting of an injury awareness module and implementing prevention strategies during intracurricular lessons. Participants from four PETE programmes formed the intervention group (n = 4 programme directors, n = 38 sports lecturers, n 859 students), while those from four other programmes were ...

This study investigates voluntary sports clubs' beliefs about how virtual sports may improve club operational performance while simultaneously addressing Sport-for-All goals. For this purpose, this study also explores archetypes in perceptions to adopt virtual sports. Factor analysis, clustering and parametric tests have been used on survey data of 90 clubs. The results show three overarching goals in Sport-for-All policy that may be achieved ...

Background: Parental influences on children's eating and physical activity (PA)and consequently on their weight are fundamental. The present study aimed toidentify the predominant correlates of childhood overweight/obesity among avariety of parental practices and children's lifestyle indices in a large sample ofchildren in Europe. Methods: Families from low socio‐economic status regions were recruitedthrough schools, located in six European ...

The objective of this study was to investigate how the availability of food in the household environment is associated with a daily intake of regular and diet soft drinks in European children, considering BMI status. This cross-sectional study utilised baseline data from 12211 schoolchildren participating in the Feel4Diabetes European lifestyle modification intervention. Sociodemographics, soft drink intake and household food availability data ...

Background By including the needs and perspectives of relevant stakeholders, co-creation is seen as a promising approach for tackling complex public health problems. However, recommendations and guidance on how to plan and implement co-creation are lacking. By identifying and analysing existing implementation and evaluation frame‑ works for public health, this study aims to ofer key recommendations for professional stakeholders and researchers ...

PurposeProfessionalization is an important issue in many all-volunteer nonprofit organizations (e.g. recreational sports clubs). Therefore, this study relied on the competing values framework and self-determination theory to investigate whether a newly developed intervention can effectively strengthen the management processes and leadership styles in all-volunteer sports clubs.Design/methodology/approachFor this purpose, a rigorous ...

Overdue athletes’ salaries, i.e. late, partial or nonpayment of athletes’ salaries in professional sports, increases the risk for match-fixing as athletes are rendered more vulnerable to match-fixing approaches and for giving in to such proposals. Even though research and stakeholders recognize the aforementioned risk, the body of literature addressing the issue from a preventative legal perspective is slim to nonexistent. While the Council of ...

Despite the increasing academic interest in match-fixing, little is known about the behavioral determinants of this phenomenon. This study applies key theoretical concepts of situational action theory (SAT) to sportspersons' decision-making process when confronted with sports-related match-fixing (SRMF) propositions. Using a factorial survey, amateur football players (n = 661), and tennis players (n = 609) in Flanders (Belgium) were asked to ...