Search

Context: The focus of learning and working with professions outside of one's own is the essence of interprofessional education (IPE). Interprofessional education satisfies accreditation standards and is a high-impact teaching practice. Interprofessional education is often studied in nursing, medicine, and pharmacy; however, it has rarely been explored in athletic training. Objective: To determine student perceptions of interprofessional valuing among a unique combination of disciplines. Design: Survey. Setting: Students were seated in interprofessional teams at round tables in a ballroom resembling a professional conference. Patients or Other Participants: Forty prelicensure students participated in the tabletop simulation (athletic training = 12, dietetics = 9, nursing = 19). Of these participants, 36 completed the survey (athletic training = 9, dietetics = 8, nursing = 19). Main Outcome Measure(s): Student teams were given 2 cases and were prompted to discuss and complete accompanying tasks. Debriefing followed each case. Afterward, students were asked to complete the questionnaire. The Interprofessional Socialization and Valuing Scale-24 (ISVS) was used to assess interprofessional beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Results: The ISVS and factor means were near the top of the survey scale, indicating that students had positive perceptions of interprofessional roles and socialization. All disciplines reported strong beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors towards IPE. No significant differences on the ISVS or subscales were identified among the disciplines or between those with and without previous IPE experience. Analysis of items revealed low scores for athletic training students on being able to share and exchange ideas in a team discussion, an important interprofessional behavior. Conclusions: A combination of factors including newness to IPE, fewer IPE experiences, and unequal ratios of professions represented in each group may explain why athletic training students reported more challenges with sharing and exchanging ideas. Conducting a tabletop IPE events may facilitate the development of interprofessional valuing and socialization.

The purposes of this study were to investigate the skill-related fitness levels of undergraduate kinesiology majors in relation to the general population of college students of the same age, to investigate whether a difference exists between females and males in overall performance, and to examine the relationship between fitness and kinesiology specializations. Undergraduate kinesiology students were assessed using skill-related fitness tests that included scores from power, agility, speed, and balance tests. It was anticipated that undergraduate kinesiology students would possess higher skilled fitness than (or, at a minimum, equal to) the general public; however, the results were ambiguous and also no significant differences were found between female and male performance. Data from this study can serve to update normative population information, to add to the body of knowledge of current fitness levels for this population, and to contribute to the issue of inclusion of fitness standards for kinesiology preprofessionals.

The study was designed to examine the construct validity and internal consistency reliability of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) using a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Two widely adopted EAT models were tested: three-factor (Dieting, Bulimia and Food Preoccupation, and Oral Control) with 26 items (Garner, Olmsted, Bohr, & Garfinkel, 1982), and four-factor (Dieting, Oral Control, Awareness of Food Contents, and Food Preoccupation) with 20 items (Koslowsky et al., 1992). Research participants included two samples of female college students (calibration N = 785, cross-validation N = 298). Maximum Likelihood estimation method was adopted. The fit indexes from the three-factor EAT-26 represented unacceptable model fit (RMSEA = 0.11, SRMR = 0.11, CFI = 0.73, AGFI = 0.74). Similarly, the fit indexes from the four-factor EAT-20 model provided a poor fit (RMSEA = 0.09, SRMR = 0.07, CFI = 0.85, AGFI = 0.83); however, after eliminating four items with low factor loadings, the four-factor EAT model with 16 items was found to have an acceptable fit (RMSEA = 0.08, SRMR = 0.05, CFI = 0.91, AGFI = 0.88). The EAT-16 model was then crossvalidated on an independent sample and was found to have acceptable configural and metric invariance as well as internal consistency reliability. (Contains 2 figures and 7 tables.)

Kinesiology students represent a group of aspiring health professionals whose behavioral and anthropometric characteristics may be pertinent to their future clients 'perceptions (e.g., credibility) as well as behavior (e.g., modeling). The purpose of this study was to investigate health-relatedfitness (HRF) of undergraduate Kinesiology students relative to contemporary' recommended guidelines set by the American College of Sports Medicine. Undergraduate Kinesiology students (n = 98 women and 129 men) completed 5 HRF tests covering 4 areas of fitness. One-sample t-tests were used to compare Kinesiology students' HRF scores to age-adjusted, gender-specific criterion standards reflecting fair or average values. Both women and men performed significantly better than recommended standards in terms of flexibility' and muscular endurance, but were found to have significantly poorer body composition. In terms of cardiorespiratory endurance, men performed below average, while women managed to meet the recommended standard. Results suggest undergraduate Kinesiology students could improve their HRF in order to optimize health and professional benefits., Overweight and obesity is a nation-wide epidemic associated with a variety of serious health implications that are consistent across all sociodemographic groups (Wang & Beydoun, 2007). Recent data indicate that [...]

Discusses the results of a study regarding the occurrence of high-risk behaviors despite large expenditures of money on HIV/AIDS education in the U.S. Application of the analysis of variance to determine the subjects' differences in knowledge and behavior; Difference between the risk behavior of males and females; Effect of increased knowledge of the disease on the behavior of the participants in the study.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how listening to music while running affects performance and perceived exertion of college students. Twenty-eight undergraduate kinesiology students (17 males, 11 females; age = 22.9 ± 5.9 yrs) were studied to determine if running performance and rating of perceived exertion were affected by listening to music. Running performance (RP) was measured by a 1.5-mile run. Two trials were performed, the first was a running performance without music listening (RPWOML = 12.94 ± 3.35 min) and the second trial was a running performance while music listening (RPWML = 12.50 ± 2.48 min). The second trial was measured five days post the initial trial. Listening to music (music listening) was defined as the subject's self selection of music tracks and use of a personal digital audio player (e.g. IPod, MP3) during exercise. Perceived exertion without music listening (PEWOML = 14.7 ± 1.3) and perceived exertion with music listening (PEWML = 15.2 ± 2.4) was measured by the Borg 6 to 20 RPE scale. Data analysis was performed on the raw data by utilizing dependent t-tests to calculate and compare sample means. Statistical analyses determined a significant difference (p < .05) between running performance without music listening (RPWOML = 12.94 ± 3.35 min) and running performance with music listening (RPWML = 12.50 ± 2.48 min). However, no significant difference (p < .05) was determined between perceived exertion without music listening (PEWOML = 14.7 ± 1.3) and perceived exertion with music listening (PEWML = 15.2 ± 2.4) as measured by the Borg 6 to 20 RPE scale. In conclusion, the results of this study indicate that music listening has a significant effect on running performance during a maximal 1.5-mile run. However, music listening had no significant effect on rating of perceived exertion at this distance. Based on the results of this study it is recommended that coaches, athletes, and traditional exercisers consider listening to music during training to enhance performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the economy continues to decline, sport managers realize that discretionary spending is limited. As such, sport managers are giving more consideration to price strategies within their own marketing mix as well as their comparison to other sport teams. The purpose of this study was to conduct a cross-sectional pricing investigation of individual teams by region within a Class-AAA and Class-AA league from the minor league baseball system. Data were obtained for ticket prices and fees from baseball team websites and phone interviews. Multivariate analysis of variance was examined for both Double-A and Triple-A leagues divided into regions. This study found no significant F (1,6) = .09, p = .77 differences for the highest ticket prices, F (1,6) = .09, p = .78, or the lowest ticket prices, and F (1,6) = .07, p = .80 for the groups within the Double-A Affiliate Texas League. However, a significance F (2,13) = 8.08, p = .00 was found in lowest ticket price within the Triple-A Affiliate Pacific Coast League, unlike highest ticket prices and fees which were not measurably different. Most minor league sport managers could consider this advantageous for promoting their entertainment as a good economic value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]