@article{ref1,
title="Commentary: Sports participation at 4 years old? Thoughts on mental health-risk trajectories in the longitudinal study of Australian children - a commentary on Vella et al. (2018)",
journal="Child and adolescent mental health",
year="2019",
author="Crowell, Judith A.",
volume="24",
number="2",
pages="149-151",
abstract="Vella and colleagues (this issue) report on children in the kindergarten cohort of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) study, using predictors from age 4 years to identify six trajectories of mental health risk from ages 4-12. Somewhat surprisingly, they find that among some predictable candidates for risk, such as sex and family income, that sports participation at age four emerges as a novel predictor of low difficulty with respect to mental health trajectories across the next 8 years. Is this a case of mens sana in corpore sano? Or is sports participation, that is, swimming, dancing, gymnastics, and team sports, a proxy for other factors? What can the various predictors and the trajectories of mental health risk from this longitudinal study tell us about interventions to reduce risk?<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1475-357X",
doi="10.1111/camh.12290",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/camh.12290"
}