Temporal Trends in Sports Participation among Adolescents between 2001 and 2015: A French School- and Territory-Based Study.

ABSTRACT: Improving adolescents’ levels of sport and physical activity (PA) is an official public health issue. French national government plans were launched in 2001, 2006, and 2011 to improve the participation levels of citizens. These plans should be monitored. To date, information on temporal trends in sports has come from the national population. However, no data are available to measure temporal trends in different territories across the country. Our study aimed to measure these trends among a representative sample of adolescent students of the third biggest French region (Bouches-du-Rhône), but also one of the poorest, between 2001 and 2015. Three surveys were conducted in 2001, 2008, and 2015 in high schools (n = 3218). Logistic regressions adjusted for age were used to determine

SUBMITTER: Luiggi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6068882 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature