@article{ref1,
title="How adolescents perceive that community-based exercise improves their well-being",
journal="Australasian psychiatry",
year="2017",
author="Rourke, Kevin and Wilson, Coralie J.",
volume="25",
number="5",
pages="456-459",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To determine if adolescents perceive community-based exercise as beneficial to their well-being and in what ways. <br><br>METHODS: A New South Wales Police Citizens Youth Club ran a four-week fitness course. The classes involved: 1) sports including basketball and soccer, 2) non-contact boxing drills, and 3) games, both team games such as dodgeball and non-team games such as line tag. Parental consent to offer a survey at the completion of the course was requested during registration. The survey was the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale; it was minimally modified to measure perceived benefit to mental well-being instead of actual benefit. <br><br>RESULTS: Thirty-one high school adolescents, ages 13-18, completed the survey. As a group, participants reported that they believed their well-being had improved after the course. The mean score for each survey item showed an improvement in every area of mental well-being for this sample of adolescents. Thirty-two per cent of adolescents reported having less energy. Survey scores indicated a statistically significant improvement in perceived well-being ( p<0.0001). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study suggest that four weeks of community-based exercise improves perceived mental well-being in adolescent participants.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1039-8562",
doi="10.1177/1039856217726718",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856217726718"
}