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Do Intervention Studies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents Take Sex/Gender Into Account? A Systematic Review (2021)
Journal Article
Schlund, A., Reimers, A. K., Bucksch, J., Brindley, C., Schulze, C., Puil, L., Coen, S. E., Phillips, S. P., Knapp, G., & Demetriou, Y. (2021). Do Intervention Studies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents Take Sex/Gender Into Account? A Systematic Review. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 18(4), 461-468. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2020-0666

Background: Physical inactivity is often reported in youth and differs among boys and girls. The aim of this study is to assess sex/gender considerations in intervention studies promoting physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior in youth usi... Read More about Do Intervention Studies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents Take Sex/Gender Into Account? A Systematic Review.

Review of gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnic background considerations reported in active school travel intervention studies (2021)
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Medeiros, A., Buttazzoni, A., Coen, S. E., Clark, A. F., Wilson, K., & Gilliland, J. (2021). Review of gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnic background considerations reported in active school travel intervention studies. Journal of Transport and Health, 21, Article 101035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2021.101035

Introduction: Trends over the last half century have shown that fewer children today are engaging in active modes of travel to and from school than in previous generations. Interventions promoting active school travel (AST) can be effective at revers... Read More about Review of gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnic background considerations reported in active school travel intervention studies.

Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Towards a gendered environmental approach (2021)
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Parsons, J. L., Coen, S. E., & Bekker, S. (2021). Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Towards a gendered environmental approach. British Journal of Sports Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-103173

Background: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rate for girls/women has not changed in over 20 years, and they remain 3-6 times more likely to experience injury compared with boys/men. To date, ACL injury prevention and management has been a... Read More about Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Towards a gendered environmental approach.

A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review (2020)
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Schulze, C., Demetriou, Y., Emmerling, S., Schlund, A., Phillips, S. P., Puil, L., Coen, S. E., & Reimers, A. K. (2020). A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review. BMC Pediatrics, 20(1), Article 473. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-02370-9

© 2020 The Author(s). Background: To evaluate the effects of interventions on children's and adolescents' overall physical activity (PA) for boys and girls separately and to appraise the extent to which the studies haven taken sex/gender into account... Read More about A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review.

‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral "stickiness" of binary gender (2020)
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Coen, S. E., Davidson, J., & Rosenberg, M. W. (2021). ‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral "stickiness" of binary gender. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(4), 537-553. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2020.1748897

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper develops a visceral feminist geography of the gym to expand our understanding of how everyday physical activity environments are implicated in the gendered context of physical... Read More about ‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral "stickiness" of binary gender.

Towards a critical geography of physical activity: Emotions and the gendered boundary-making of an everyday exercise environment (2019)
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Coen, S. E., Davidson, J., & Rosenberg, M. W. (2020). Towards a critical geography of physical activity: Emotions and the gendered boundary-making of an everyday exercise environment. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(2), 313-330. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12347

The information, practices and views in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2019 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) In th... Read More about Towards a critical geography of physical activity: Emotions and the gendered boundary-making of an everyday exercise environment.

Interventions on children’s and adolescents’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour: protocol for a systematic review from a sex/gender perspective (2019)
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Demetriou, Y., Vondung, C., Bucksch, J., Schlund, A., Schulze, C., Knapp, G., Coen, S. E., Puil, L., Phillips, S. P., & Reimers, A. K. (2019). Interventions on children’s and adolescents’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour: protocol for a systematic review from a sex/gender perspective. Systematic Reviews, 8(1), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-0963-2

Background

Low levels of physical activity (PA) and high levels of sedentary behaviour (SB) have been observed in young people. Both behaviours are detrimental for health with patterns tending to continue into adulthood. There is sustained value i... Read More about Interventions on children’s and adolescents’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour: protocol for a systematic review from a sex/gender perspective.

‘I like the “outernet” stuff:’ girls’ perspectives on physical activity and their environments (2018)
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Coen, S. E., Mitchell, C. A., Tillmann, S., & Gilliland, J. A. (2019). ‘I like the “outernet” stuff:’ girls’ perspectives on physical activity and their environments. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 11(5), 599-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2018.1561500

Physical activity in Canada mirrors the gender gap observed globally, with boys more likely than girls to meet recommended guidelines. While a growing body of research has examined the relationships between environmental factors and children’s physic... Read More about ‘I like the “outernet” stuff:’ girls’ perspectives on physical activity and their environments.

Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play (2018)
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Coen, S. E., Tillmann, S., Ergler, C. R., McGuire, C., & Gilliland, J. A. (2018). Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play. Geohumanities, 4(2), 557-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2018.1516956

In this article, we undertake a methodological and creative exploration of poetic representation in children’s geographies. Drawing on qualitative approaches to poetry as a method, we consider how poetic techniques have the potential to bring us into... Read More about Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play.

Connecting qualitative research on exercise and environment to public health agendas requires an equity lens (2017)
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Coen, S. E. (2018). Connecting qualitative research on exercise and environment to public health agendas requires an equity lens. Health and Place, 53, 264-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.09.005

In this commentary, I respond to the special section in Health & Place (vol. 46) on “Exercise and environment: new qualitative work to link popular practice and public health” edited by Hitchings and Latham. I argue that if qualitative research is to... Read More about Connecting qualitative research on exercise and environment to public health agendas requires an equity lens.