Sports participation and alcohol use among adolescents: the impact of measurement and other research design elements.

CONCLUSIONS: Sports participation has been defined and measured in various ways, most of which do not differentiate between interscholastic and community-based contexts, confounding this relationship. Stronger measures of both sports participation and alcohol use need to be applied in future studies to advance our understanding of this relationship among youths. PMID: 21696347 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: Current Drug Abuse Reviews - Category: Addiction Tags: Curr Drug Abuse Rev Source Type: research