Sports constitute a basis of fun for many (young) people and can contribute to important social developments. Sport can also yield opposite results:: arrogance, bullying, (sexual) intimidation, discrimination. Effects are largely influenced by the context of (youth) sport participation. In facing the …

‘Waardevol, maar niet eenvoudig. De pedagogische kracht van sport en spel voor inclusief jongerenwerk’ is ontwikkeld door het lectoraat Youth Spot, jongerenwerk in de Grote Stad. Het lectoraat is een samenwerkingsverband tussen de Hogeschool van Amsterdam, ROC van Amsterdam, ROC TOP en de welzijnsorganisaties …

BACKGROUND: In typically developing children, participation in sports has been proven to be positively correlated to both physical and psychosocial health outcomes. In children and adolescents with a physical disability or chronic disease participation in both recreational and competitive sports is …

Objectives: Participation is considerably restricted in children and adolescents with acquired brain injury (ABI) as compared to their healthy peers. This systematic review aims to identify which factors are associated with participation in children and adolescents with ABI. Methods: A systematic search …

The purpose of this article is to explore the determining factors of household expenditures on sports participation. Due to a relatively large amount of zero-expenditures, simple regression methods are not suited. Because of methodological reasons, the two-step Heckman approach is used over the Tobit …

Inter-team behaviour in elite-standard youth soccer during small-sided games. Soccer is a complex game with interacting players and teams. Team members cooperate to score a goal and opponent players try to keep the opponent from scoring. Tactical team behaviour seems to interact with the opponent team …

Strategic communication plan to increase the sports participation among the female youth in Kampot Province

In juli 2013 vond in Utrecht het European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF Utrecht 2013) plaats. Op zeven locaties in de stad streden 2.300 atleten tussen de 13-18 jaar oud uit 49 verschillende landen in negen takken van sport om de medailles. De organisatoren van EYOF Utrecht 2013 wilden niet alleen een …

This presentation reports on the natural experiment. The developed toolbox with information regarding methods and measurements of physical activity, sedentary behavior and diet will be applied in the context of JOGG-Drenthe. This natural experiment is part of DEDIPAC, a sub project of the Joint Programming …

Youths in Bolgatanga municipality in the Upper East Region in the rural north of Ghana suffer health and social problems that are caused by their premarital and unsafe sexual behaviour. This study provides more knowledge of and insight into the youths’ conceptions, motives and practices concerning premarital …