- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Sports Analytics and Performance
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Business Law and Ethics
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Physical Education and Pedagogy
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Educational Games and Gamification
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Legal Issues in Education
- Digital Games and Media
- Athletic Training and Education
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Higher Education Research Studies
- American Sports and Literature
- Sports Performance and Training
- Management and Marketing Education
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
- Educational Practices and Policies
- Organizational Learning and Leadership
University of Georgia
2013-2024
Grady Memorial Hospital
2019-2020
Although a base level of knowledge is needed to recognize concussion, knowledge-focused concussion educational materials ignore multifaceted barriers reporting. We compared student-athlete reporting intentions and behaviors prior 1 year after exposure an intervention or control treatment. randomly assigned 891 collegiate student-athletes from three universities (Divisions I, II, III) either the group (National College Athletic Association [NCAA] Concussion Fact Sheet) (theory-based,...
Sports journalists have long enjoyed close—many would say too close—relationships with their sources. As suggested by a neoinstitutionalist, understanding of organizational relationships, routines, and professional expectations become accepted over time sports organizations alike. However, new competition from online media, as well opportunities for teams to bypass the threatened legitimacy work practices. A survey 437 reporters communications personnel found key differences in ways those...
Through developing the Sport Fan Sense of Community (SFSC) scale, this study examined factors that would constitute a sense membership in sport fan community, impact these on behavioral and psychological outcomes membership, their influence creation maintenance social capital through community. fans ( N = 525) were surveyed data analyzed two-step confirmatory factor analysis subsequent structural equation model analyses. A total 17 items under five key resulted for SFSC including Collective...
Primary Objective: The objective of this study was to determine whether sex, years sport eligibility completed, and contact level influenced student-athletes' concussion reporting intentions behaviours.Research Design: Cross-sectional.Methods Procedures: Student-athletes (n = 828) reported their sport, completed behaviours surveys. Nonparametric statistics were conducted compare between groups (alpha 0.05).Main Outcomes Results: Females had higher indirect report than males (p 0.035), but...
Abstract Better data can make clearer the relationships among athletics, institutional finances, and prestige.
Part of the goal International Paralympic Committee is to “touch heart all people for a more equitable society” by exposing adaptive sports, with improving public views toward disabilities. The authors hypothesized that exposure parasocial contact images athletes disabilities could lead change in attitude during formation social identity, disrupting tendency view population individuals physical as “other. ” This case study found viewing documentary sprinter produced same style an Olympic...
Clinicians rely on student-athletes to self-report concussion symptoms, but more than 50% of concussions go undisclosed.The aim this study was determine whether knowledge, attitudes, subjective norms, self-efficacy, social identity, and athletic identity explain variability in student-athlete reporting intentions behavior.One hundred forty-seven Division I II collegiate (male=23, female=56, missing=168; age=19.04±1.98 years) completed survey segments regarding the following predictor...
Background: Sport is a socio-ecological framework where student-athletes are part of larger community stakeholders, including coaches, sports medicine professionals (SMPs), and parents.This may hold influence over whether seek care for concussion.Aim: We aimed to describe, compare, determine the stakeholder concussion knowledge, attitudes, scenario responses. Materials methods:We recruited sample 477 their 27 coaches (response rate=46.6%),24 SMPs (48.7%), 31 parents/guardians...
Abstract This chapter presents the history behind movement to collect data on intercollegiate athletics.
Sports reporters depend on access to events and sources as much or more than any other news professional. Over the past few years, some sports organizations have attempted restrict such access, well what can publish via social media. In digital era, publishing autonomy, institutionalized concepts, are evolving rapidly. Hypotheses tying work practices reporters’ perceptions of legitimacy they experience developed tested a structural equation model, using responses survey journalists in...
The United States Military Academy (West Point) is one of the premier undergraduate institutions for leadership development in higher education. Participating competitive varsity athletics both a key entrance requirement and prominent feature West Point cadet experience. ways which occurs postsecondary education by participating not well understood regardless institution type. Using qualitative interviews with graduates, this study explores role that plays its undergraduates. A finding from...