Exertional Heat Illness Preparedness Strategies: Environmental Monitoring Policies in United States High Schools.

ABSTRACT: Background and objectives: Environmental monitoring allows for an analysis of the ambient conditions affecting a physically active person's ability to thermoregulate and can be used to assess exertional heat illness risk. Using public health models such as the precaution adoption process model (PAPM) can help identify individual's readiness to act to adopt environmental monitoring policies for the safety of high school athletes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the adoption of policies and procedures used for monitoring and modifying activity in the heat in United States (US) high schools. Materials and Methods: Using a cross-sectional design, we distributed an online questionnaire to athletic trainers (ATs) working in high schools in the US. The questionnaire was developed bas

SUBMITTER: Scarneo-Miller SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7597963 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature