@article{ref1,
title="Sports team participation among US high school girls, 1999-2015",
journal="Clinical pediatrics",
year="2018",
author="Simon, Alan E. and Uddin, Sayeedha F. G.",
volume="57",
number="6",
pages="637-644",
abstract="Sports team participation has myriad benefits for girls. We used the 1999-2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a nationally representative survey of US high school students, to examine time trends in sports team participation. Data from 2015 alone were examined for current differences in participation by sex, race/ethnicity, grade, and weight status. For both analyses, unadjusted and adjusted logistic regressions, with team participation as the dependent variable, were used. In 2015, 53% of US high school girls participated in team sports. Participation was higher among non-Hispanic white (60.7%) compared to Hispanic (40.7%) and Asian (35.6%) girls, and girls with normal-weight status (58.1%) compared to overweight (50.0%) and obese (36.5%) girls ( P <.01 for all comparisons). From 1999 to 2015, the rate of increase in participation was higher among non-Hispanic black girls than non-Hispanic white girls. No increase was observed for Hispanic and Asian girls. Addressing the disparities found in team participation is imperative.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0009-9228",
doi="10.1177/0009922817732145",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0009922817732145"
}