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Playing for more than winning: Exploring sports participation, physical activity, and belongingness and their relationship with patterns of adolescent substance use and mental health

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Promoting adolescent sports participation and physical activity may be effective low-barrier prevention strategies for co-occurring adolescent substance use (SU) and mental health symptoms (MH). The objectives of this study were to: 1) explore associations between profiles of SU/MH and sports participation; and 2) determine whether physical activity and belongingness account for these associations. METHODS: Data came from a …

Authors

Halladay J; Ogrodnik M; Alla JF; Sunderland M; Gardner LA; Georgiades K

Journal

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Vol. 254, ,

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

1 2024

DOI

10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.111039

ISSN

0376-8716