TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - 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)
JO  - Child and adolescent mental health
A1  - Crowell, Judith A.
SP  - 149
EP  - 151
VL  - 24
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1475-357X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/camh.12290
ID  - ref1
ER  -