Key result
Participating in youth sport is commonly associated with physical harm, which takes on a different form than in other settings due to a culture of training to the limits of physicality.
Population
6124 young people who completed an online survey about their experiences of participating in sport as children
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Alerts clinicians to sport-specific physical harms in youth; leaves open causal mechanisms and prevention strategies for prospective study.
Cross-Sectional (n=6,124)
Physical harm is common in youth sports and is influenced by a sporting ethos that normalizes training and competing to the limits of physicality.
Stafford et al. (2013) conducted a cross-sectional in Physical aggression and violence in sport (n=6,124). Participating in youth sport is commonly associated with physical harm, which takes on a different form than in other settings due to a culture of training to the limits of physicality.
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