What about sport? A public health perspective on leisure-time physical activity

Berg, Brennan K.; Warner, Stacy; Das, Bhibha M.

doi:10.1016/j.smr.2014.09.005

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“…There is an emerging trend towards modifying sports and physical activities to remove barriers to participation and get more people active [15,16]. The public health outcomes described earlier are most likely to be achieved through this sport for all approach, rather than sport for athletes [7].…”

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Lights out, let’s dance! An investigation into participation in No Lights, No Lycra and its association with health and wellbeing

Foley

Vassallo

Reece

2019

BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil

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Background: Organized, leisure time physical activities are an important part of a population approach to increase total physical activity participation. Dancing is a type of organized leisure time activity which may be utilized to enhance public health. Individuals commonly participate in dance during childhood however few maintain participation into adulthood, dropping out of the activity while young. This study aimed to investigate who participates in an emerging dance activity, "No Lights, No Lycra", which encourages people to participate in freeform dancing in the dark for 60 min designed as an inclusive, nonjudgmental, drug and alcohol-free community setting. This version of dance provides a modified opportunity for organized leisure time physical activity. No Lights, No Lycra has recorded increases in attendance at their events over the past decade. This popularity warrants an investigation into participant's demographic characteristics, their total physical activity, as well as their motivations for dancing in the dark and any impacts on health and wellbeing. Methods: This study invited No Lights, No Lycra participants from across Australia to complete a cross-sectional, self-report online survey. Participants were recruited while attending an organized session or through social media channels. The descriptive data provided through survey responses were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics. Results: Participants (n = 1190, 92% Female) reported their main reason for dancing in the dark was to have fun. Most participants were insufficiently active, with 88% of responders not meeting physical activity guidelines. The No Lights, No Lycra dance sessions contributed 23% of their total annual participation in organized physical activities. Conclusion: No Lights, No Lycra attracts adult women, rather than the typical dance participantschildren; These women did not meet physical activity guidelines and typically had low levels of engagement in organized physical activity. Participation in No Lights, No Lycra, shows promise to increase women's physical activity. This study into No Lights, No Lycra demonstrates how dance can be modified to engage a relatively inactive portion of the community. More should be done to understand how modifications to organized sport and physical activities can motivate and maintain engagement of typically inactive people.

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Lights out, let’s dance! An investigation into participation in No Lights, No Lycra and its association with health and wellbeing

Foley

Vassallo

Reece

2019

BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil

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“…First, the reviewed studies are inconclusive about whether spectator services are beneficial or harmful to the physical and mental health of the population and the reduction of crime, violence, and suicide in society. This could be a reflection of the belief that neither health benefits nor detriments are inherent in sport, but that its health effects heavily depend on how sport is managed and marketed (Berg et al, 2015;Chalip, 2006). The inconsistent evidence also highlights the importance of identifying conditional factors that may determine the impact of sport events and spectatorship on physical and mental well-being.…”

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“…Understanding what determines population health or the health of a population (Kindig, 2007;Kindig & Stoddart, 2003) requires the concerted efforts of multiple academic disciplines (Krieger et al, 2003). In sport management, scholars have increasingly recognized the role of participant sport in population health (Berg, Warner, & Das, 2015;Henderson, 2009;Rowe, Shilbury, Ferkins, & Hinckson, 2013). In contrast, with the exception of research on how sport fandom relates to psychological outcomes (e.g., Chien & Ross, 2012), less attention has been given to the positive and negative effects of spectator sport on population health.…”

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Spectator Sport and Population Health: A Scoping Study

Inoue

Berg

Chelladurai

2015

Journal of Sport Management

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This article examines the current state of research regarding the effect of spectator sport on population health. We conducted a scoping study that involved a comprehensive search of published and gray literature between 1990 and 2014, and identified 135 studies empirically examining the effect of spectator sport on population health. A frequency analysis shows that there is a paucity of studies on this topic published in sport management journals. A thematic analysis further reveals that the reviewed studies can be classified into nine research themes depicting the relationships among certain categories of spectator sport and population health. Based on this scoping study, we develop a framework and identify several gaps in the literature that should be addressed to advance our understanding of the relationship between spectator sport and population health.

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“…There are four globalised aspects observable in this trend. First, the fishbowl of the 'global sporting arms race' (Green and Houlihan, 2005;Grix and Carmichael, 2012); second, epidemiological concerns linking sport to public health promotion (Mann et al 1994, Berg et al 2015, Aggestål and Fahlén 2015. Third, human rights global appeal as a moral and ethical dimension of human interaction; something that governments have, at least rhetorically, sought to promote and fulfil (Doebbler, 2006, Nussbaum, 1997.…”

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The capabilities and human rights of high performance athletes

Adams

Kavanagh

2018

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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High performance athletes participate and function in sports systems where exploitative behaviours may become manifest. These behaviours potentially violate an individual athlete’s human rights. Using the Capability Approach first outlined by Amartya Sen the paper details how a more precise analysis of human rights, in the context of high performance sport, may be achieved. Using in-depth narrative accounts from high performance athletes, data illustrate how athlete maltreatment is related to individual capabilities and functionings: the loss of individual freedoms infringes accepted notions of human rights. The implications for practice concern how human rights may be protected within and for systems of high performance production.

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What about sport? A public health perspective on leisure-time physical activity

Cited by 74 publications

References 57 publications

Lights out, let’s dance! An investigation into participation in No Lights, No Lycra and its association with health and wellbeing

Lights out, let’s dance! An investigation into participation in No Lights, No Lycra and its association with health and wellbeing

Spectator Sport and Population Health: A Scoping Study

The capabilities and human rights of high performance athletes

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