What Keeps Kids Coming Back? Retention in a Sport-Based Positive Youth Development Program.

ABSTRACT: Research finds engagement in sport-based positive youth development (PYD) programs contribute to key outcomes related to physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and mental health. Consistent, long-term participation ensures youth, especially those who are socially vulnerable, reap the most benefits. Even when common barriers are removed, retention remains a challenge. Using mixed methods, this study explored factors related to long-term retention among youth from socially vulnerable circumstances attending one sport-based PYD program. Factors related to youth participation in the previous year's program, as well as general youth demographics, were examined using difference tests and binomial logistic regression to explore retention among 124 of the 384 youth who returned to the program the

SUBMITTER: Anderson-Butcher D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9347661 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature