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This research, which was performed in order to determine the relationship between some activities in the online learning environment and their academic achievements of Physical Education and Sports School students, was designed in a relational scanning model. The research was conducted on the data of 444 students who attended online classes at a physical education and sports school of a state university in the spring term of the 2020-2021 academic year. Data used in the research were collected through "Aid for Learning Management System (ALMS)" and "Student Information System (SIS)" of the relevant university. The duration of watching the courses live and from the archive, the number of downloading the course documents and the duration of watching the course videos uploaded were obtained within the scope of online learning activities via ALMS;and the academic achievement scores of the students for these courses were obtained via SIS. As a result of the research, a positive and significant relationship was found between course attendance, the duration of watching the archived and uploaded course videos, the number of downloading course documents and students' gender and their academic achievement scores while there was no significant relationship between students' grade level and academic achievement scores. According to the significant correlations, it was seen that the duration of live course attendance and watching from the archive significantly predicted the academic achievement scores of the students while the duration of watching the course videos, the number of downloading the course documents and gender did not significantly predict the academic achievement scores of the students.
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Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic significantly disrupted athletic activities, including those in the Pacific 12 (Pac-12) Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It is currently unknown how the disruption in training and competition impacted athletes' risk of injury upon resumption of activities. Purpose: To describe and compare the rate, timing, mechanism, and severity of injuries among collegiate athletes across multiple sports in the Pac-12 Conference before and after the COVID-19 pandemic-associated hiatus of intercollegiate athletic activities. Study Design: Descriptive epidemiology study. Methods: Descriptive and injury data among intercollegiate athletes from both the season before the hiatus and the season after the hiatus were acquired from the Pac-12 Health Analytics Program database. Injury elements (timing of injury onset, injury severity, mechanism, recurrence, outcome, need for procedural intervention, and event segment during which the injury took place) were compared by time using the chi-square test and a multivariate logistic regression model. Subgroup analyses were performed on knee and shoulder injuries among athletes participating in sports with traditionally high rates of knee and shoulder injuries. Results: A total of 12,319 sports-related injuries across 23 sports were identified, with 7869 pre-hiatus injuries and 4450 post-hiatus injuries. There was no difference in the overall incidence of injury between the pre-hiatus and post-hiatus seasons. However, the proportion of noncontact injuries was higher in the post-hiatus season for football, baseball, and softball players, and the proportion of nonacute injuries in the post-hiatus season was higher among football, basketball, and rowing athletes. Finally, the overall proportion of injuries sustained by football players in the final 25% of competition or practice was higher in the post-hiatus season. Conclusion: Athletes competing in the post-hiatus season were observed to have higher rates of noncontact injuries and injuries sustained in the final 25% of competition. This study demonstrates that the COVID-19 pandemic has had varied effects on athletes from different sports, suggesting that many factors must be considered when designing return-to-sports programs for athletes after an extended absence from organized training.
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The COVID-19 pandemic affected sport programming by restricting in-person activities. Concurrently, global outcry for racial justice for Black and racialized communities promoted calls to action to assess equitable practices in sport, including sport for development (SFD). This study critically examined SFD "return to play" programming to include perspectives from racialized persons' lived experiences. We present findings based on data collected from Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Foundation's Change the Game campaign, which explored questions of sport inequity to "build back better." Outcomes further SFD discourses challenging (potentially) harmful structures affecting participants, including underreported effects of racialization. The study used both quantitative and qualitative analyses of survey data on youth experiences, enablers, and barriers in sport and analyzed these results within an antiracist, antioppressive, and decolonial conceptual framework.
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While the working and middle classes have faced the challenges brought about by job layoffs resulting from corporate mergers and the lack of an economic support system to provide a survivable quality of life, the top one percent has enjoyed the benefits of increasing monetary gains from tax cuts and stock market investments. Reduced state funding and the infusion of marketplace principles and practices have resulted in the treatment of students as a revenue stream for raising tuition, which, in turn, increases student dependence on loans benefiting primarily Wall Street private lenders. [...]higher education has become the victim of a hostile takeover by neoliberal principles that utilize higher education as a laboratory for economic practices and redesign work roles to monetize the value of higher education. [...]they argue that for the last fifty years, neoliberalism has penetrated the academy and intercollegiate athletics and has been speeding toward a separation of the university and athletics by prioritizing business and profit interests as well as private and corporate sponsorships, and by increasing reliance on governance by the NCAA rather than universities (including academic standards and compliance).
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The mental health of fellowship-trained sports medicine physicians (FTSMPs) around the United States is a subject that needs additional exploration. Currently, there is little research exploring how FTSMPs address their mental health on a routine basis. Using the theory of secondary trauma stress to help navigate this study, the purpose of this expressive, all-purpose qualitative study is to improve the understanding of FTSMPs' perceptions of their mental health and the kinds of strategies used to manage these issues. This is a general qualitative study. All interviews were conducted via video communication platforms such as Zoom. The final sample included 35 FTSMPs: 25 men and 10 women. Data collection used a semi-structured interview approach. Data analysis was carried out using NVivo 12 qualitative data analysis software. Four themes emerged: mental health matters affect individual daily lives of FTSMPs; FTSMPs correlate mental health struggles with stress and anxiety; FTSMPs experience barricades when seeking support for mental health issues; and FTSMPs have poor mental health support-seeking behaviors. Results highlight openings for hospitals and private practice institutions, including producing a maintainable work-life equilibrium for FTSMPs and offering these FTSMPs access to mental health services. These recommendations may diminish exhaustion amongst several FTSMPs, a product detrimental to patients, providers, and hospitals.
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The primary objective of this community-based participatory research is to explore the impacts of COVID-19 and the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on world-class and elite/international-class parenting and pregnant athletes. Participants in this study include 11 female and 10 male parenting and/or pregnant middle and distance runners. Combined, the participants have competed at 26 Olympic Games and 31 World Championships. Drawing on the general concepts of stressors and psychological resilience, we use thematic analysis to develop four themes to understand the stressors for world-class and elite/international-class parenting and pregnant athletes due to COVID-19 and the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: (1) lack of childcare support, (2) family planning, and (3) needing to stay away from sources of COVID-including their children. Despite the stressors identified in the aforementioned themes, we identified a fourth theme: (4) participants demonstrated adaptability to stress in spite of-or due to-their athlete-parent identities.
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The onset of COVID-19 and cancellation of collegiate sports may have exacerbated student-athletes' psychological distress. Within a national sample of collegiate athletes (N = 5,755;66.7% women), we determined how gender and race related to rates of depression, stress, and counseling use at the beginning of the pandemic (April/May 2020). Overall, 26.5% (n = 1,526) and 10.6% (n = 612) endorsed clinical levels of depression and stress, respectively;25.1% (n = 1,443) and 69.7% (n = 4,014) reported subclinical levels. Few athletes (2.3%-17.1%) reported counseling use before or after the onset of COVID-19;those who did reported higher levels of depression and stress than those who never sought services. The female athletes reported higher rates of depression, stress, and counseling use than the male athletes. There were no race effects. Athletic departments must address their student-athletes' psychological distress by facilitating a higher use of mental health services.
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Intercollegiate Athletics Directors (ADs) are the primary managers of athletics programs on college campuses. At the Division I level of the NCAA, ADs manage multimillion dollar budgets and programs that relate to their institutions' profitability, visibility, student-interest, student-achievement, and donations, yet little is known about ADs' day-to-day job responsibilities. The purposes of this study were (1) to systematically examine the composition and content of ADs' workdays at NCAA Division I member institutions, and (2) to examine potential relationships between ADs' work, the sports seasons in which their work is performed, and the league membership of their institutions. Twelve ADs from the Ivy League, Patriot League, and Southeastern Conference (SEC) completed electronic time diaries for 113 workdays featuring 714 distinct work activities during fall and spring of the 2020-21 school year. For each activity, participants recorded the exact beginning and end time, whether or not the activity was planned in advance, the location of the activity, the personnel with whom they engaged, the primary purpose of the activity, the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the activity, and their level of stress during the activity. Overall, results indicated the daily work of NCAA Division I ADs was largely administrative and engaged with others. It was most often pre-planned and episodic, rather than spontaneous and choppy. Moreover, the amount of time ADs devoted to each of their major job responsibilities per day was generally consistent across sports seasons. ADs experienced low levels of occupational stress, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the purposes of ADs' work throughout the 2020-2021 year were relatively low. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed, and recommendations for future researchers and practitioners are offered. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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This quantitative study scrutinized the self-assessment of Physical Education and Sport teachers about their online physical education (PE) classes, which stemmed from the closure of schools and mandatory distance education during the COVID-19 outbreak. The data collecting tools of the study were the "Evaluation of Teacher Effectiveness Questionnaire in Physical Education (SETEQ-PE)" developed by Kyrgiridis et al. (2014) and adapted to the Turkish Ektirici et al. (2016). The participants were composed of 172 volunteer physical education and sports teachers who were determined via convenience sampling model. The data collected covered such demographic information as age, gender, sports-type, teaching, and schoolwork experience besides the items related to distance education, hardware support, proficiency in technological infrastructure, and application/software. The findings of the study showed that certain variables such as technological competencies, technical support provided by the school, and application/software support were influential in the participant physical education teachers' self-assessment. In addition, it was found out that SETEQ-PE variables such as technological competencies, technical support provided by the school, and application/software support affected to PE and sports teachers' self-assessment responses. However, no significant differences were determined in SETEQ-PE results about synchronous or asynchronous implementation of the physical education lessons, gender, and age.
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With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, outdoor spaces remained one of the few places for youth recreation. Outdoor recreation and sport have been associated with positive youth development (PYD) prior to the pandemic, so we sought to test these relationships during the pandemic, accounting for self-efficacy and demographic factors that may be associated with participation. To achieve this aim, we conducted an online survey of United States youth (N=116) aged 12-17. Higher levels of PYD during the pandemic were associated with higher levels of school-based sport prior to the pandemic, community-based sport during the pandemic, and outdoor time prior to and during the pandemic. Self-efficacy, but not demographics, was associated with outdoor time. Outdoor recreation should be promoted for youth as it is positively associated with PYD, especially when other forms of recreation are restricted. Recreation professionals should foster self-efficacy and ensure that opportunities for outdoor recreation are equitably accessible.
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Intercollegiate Athletics Directors (ADs) are the primary managers of athletics programs on college campuses. At the Division I level of the NCAA, ADs manage multimillion dollar budgets and programs that relate to their institutions' profitability, visibility, student-interest, student-achievement, and donations, yet little is known about ADs' day-to-day job responsibilities. The purposes of this study were (1) to systematically examine the composition and content of ADs' workdays at NCAA Division I member institutions, and (2) to examine potential relationships between ADs' work, the sports seasons in which their work is performed, and the league membership of their institutions. Twelve ADs from the Ivy League, Patriot League, and Southeastern Conference (SEC) completed electronic time diaries for 113 workdays featuring 714 distinct work activities during fall and spring of the 2020-21 school year. For each activity, participants recorded the exact beginning and end time, whether or not the activity was planned in advance, the location of the activity, the personnel with whom they engaged, the primary purpose of the activity, the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the activity, and their level of stress during the activity. Overall, results indicated the daily work of NCAA Division I ADs was largely administrative and engaged with others. It was most often pre-planned and episodic, rather than spontaneous and choppy. Moreover, the amount of time ADs devoted to each of their major job responsibilities per day was generally consistent across sports seasons. ADs experienced low levels of occupational stress, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the purposes of ADs' work throughout the 2020-2021 year were relatively low. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed, and recommendations for future researchers and practitioners are offered. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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SESSION TITLE: Late Breaking Chest Infections Posters SESSION TYPE: Original Investigation Posters PRESENTED ON: 10/18/2022 01:30 pm - 02:30 pm PURPOSE: The science continues to develop in terms of the epidemiology of persistent, or long COVID, especially in the pediatric population. The impact of persistent COVID-19 on cardiorespiratory fitness in the form of physical activity and athletic performance among children/adolescents is not well described, especially among vulnerable populations. METHODS: A retrospective electronic health record review identified children/adolescents with previously diagnosed COVID (N=312, 52.9% male, mean age at diagnosis 6.6 [SD 5.9] years, 20.5% non-Hispanic White [NHW], 19.2% non-Hispanic Black [NHB], and 54.5% Hispanic, 85.26% hospitalized due to COVID-19 illness) from one pediatric healthcare system that serves predominantly Medicaid-dependent families. Patients or caregivers completed a follow-up telephone survey from March 2021- February 2022 to estimate the prevalence of persistent COVID symptoms, defined as the presence of symptoms lasting ≥ 30 days. Multiple logistic regression models explored the association between physical activity and the presence of long COVID. RESULTS: 71 (22.8%) patients reported long COVID and the most prevalent symptoms included tiredness (21 [6.7%]), shortness of breath (18 [5.8%]), cough (16 [5.1%]), headache (14 [4.5%]), difficulty with thinking/concentration (14 [4.5%]), disrupted sleep (14 [4.5%]), other symptoms (12 [3.8%]), anxiety (11 [3.5%]), body aches (11 [3.5%]), joint pain (10 [3.2%]) chest pain (9 [2.9%]), intermittent fever (6 [1.9%]), and loss taste/smell (5 [1.6%]). Almost a third (32%, N = 24) of patients who participated in any athletics or physical activity in or outside of school reported a negative impact on physical or athletic performance, and 66.7% reported it was directly related to COVID-19 illness. Specific complaints when returning to physical activity post-COVID illness included tiredness (7 [36.8%]) and shortness of breath (2 [10.5%]). The odds of a decline in physical activity performance was over twice that (OR 2.17, 95% CI 0.54-8.71, p = 0.28) among children with long COVID versus those reporting no long COVID after adjusting for demographics. There was no difference by age (mean 9.8 vs. 9.7 years, p = 0.93), sex (50% girls vs. 50% boys, p =0.71), or race/ethnicity (25% NHW vs. 25% NHB vs. 37.5% Hispanic, p = 0.25) in terms of decline in physical activity performance. Two children were recommended to delay re-entry into physical activity. CONCLUSIONS: A substantial proportion of ethnically diverse children from low resource backgrounds who had severe COVID illness are reporting long-term impacts on physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness. Findings can inform pediatricians about this vulnerable population in post-COVID-19 recovery efforts. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Pediatric pulmonologists and other sub-specialists should screen and monitor patients who have had previous severe COVID-19 illness for persistent cardiorespiratory impacts. DISCLOSURES: No relevant relationships by Kubra Melike Bozkanat No relevant relationships by Jackson Francis No relevant relationships by Weiheng He No relevant relationships by Alejandra Lozano No relevant relationships by Matthew Mathew No relevant relationships by Sarah Messiah No relevant relationships by Angela Rabl No relevant relationships by Sumbul shaikH No relevant relationships by Nimisha Srikanth No relevant relationships by Apurva Veeraswamy No relevant relationships by Sitara Weerakoon No relevant relationships by Luyu Xie
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Approximately 1/3 of adult women have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV), and the prevalence, severity, and frequency of IPV has been exacerbated during COVID-19 and the related lockdowns. Among the many challenges faced by IPV survivors, the physical assaults result in brain injury in the large majority of IPV survivors. Yet the nature of this brain damage and how it contributes to function has been remarkably understudied. Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is common in the general population and repetitive mTBI is gaining specific recognition. Survivors of IPV typically do not seek medical attention and may suffer subsequent mTBIs in the midst of recovery. It cannot be assumed that mTBI from IPV is equivocal to those that have been studied in athletics and the military in terms of debilitating and persisting neurological issues. Unique aspects of mTBI in IPV survivors include being highly repetitive and often coupled with other injuries, involving strangulationrelated trauma and elevated risk during pregnancy, and critically, typically remaining untreated in the acute setting. The poor understanding of the consequences and burden of brain injury in IPV is amajor knowledge gap that is imperative to address if we are to improve the care and outcomes for IPV survivors. The proposed symposium, which consists of a diverse and balanced group of junior and senior scientists, will feature recent findings from clinical and preclinical studies that provide insight into the epidemiology, functional and pathological consequences, biomarkers, and treatments of IPV-related brain injury.
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How are transgender athletes understood in popular discourse? This paper adapts and merges Glaser and Strauss’ 1967 Grounded Theory Method with computerized Automated Text Analysis to provide clarity on large-n datasets comprised of social media posts made about transgender athletes. After outlining the procedures of this new approach to social media data, I present findings from a study conducted on comments made in response to YouTube videos reporting transgender athletes. A total of 60,000 comments made on three YouTube videos were scraped for the analysis, which proceeded in two steps. The first was an iterative, grounded analysis of the top 500 “liked” comments to gain insight into the trends that emerged. Automated Text Analysis was then used to explore latent connections amongst the 60,000 comments. This descriptive analysis of thousands of datapoints revealed three dominant ways that people talk about transgender athletes: an attachment to biology as determinative of athletic abilities, a racialized understanding of who constitutes a proper “girl”, and perceptions of sex-segregated sports as the sole way to ensure fairness in athletic opportunities. The paper concludes by drawing out the implications of this research for how scholars understand the obstacles facing transgender political mobilizations, presents strategies for addressing these roadblocks, and underscores the importance of descriptive studies of discourse in political science research concerned with marginalization and inequality.
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Objective: Determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on student-athletes. Participants: Participants (n = 238) were Division III student-athletes (18-24yrs) enrolled at a Pennsylvania State University campus during the Fall 2020 semester. Methods: Student-athletes were emailed a link of a 43-question survey which was deployed using Qualtrics®. The survey asked questions about collegiate experience, health, well-being, sport related training, and physical fitness before and during the pandemic. Results: Approximately 94% of student-athletes reported that COVID-19 worsened their college experience. About 52 and 59% of student-athletes believed that COVID-19 had a negative impact on their health and well-being, respectively. Nearly 79% of student-athletes reported that their sport-related training decreased during the pandemic. Over half of participants believed that their physical fitness, endurance, and strength decreased during the pandemic. Conclusion: The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on Division III collegiate student-athletes include a worsened college experience as well as worsened health and well-being.
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Background: The use of cloth and surgical face masks has been shown to decrease the rate of COVID-19 transmission. As COVID19 cases increased in the United States, many youth sports organizations implemented masking requirements with the goal of limiting the spread of the virus. However, the use of masks during athletic activity remains controversial. We surveyed young athletes between the ages of 12 and 18 in order to understand their attitudes towards mask wear during youth sports and to determine patterns of mask wear and sports participation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We recruited participants from pediatric outpatient sports medicine clinics and invited them to complete an online survey administered via REDCap. The survey included 9 items that used a Likert-type scale to determine agreement with statements about masking during sports. An additional 5 multiple choice items asked about sports participation and assessed patterns of mask use during athletics. Results: We collected 82 responses between February and June of 2021. All athletes reported that masks were required for some part of their sports participation. The majority of respondents (59%) reported that masks were mandatory for all sports activities, while 15% reported compulsory mask use only when athletes were close to each other. An additional 19% of athletes were required to wear masks when congregating but not exercising (e.g. on the sidelines or in the locker rooms). Most athletes (51%) strongly or somewhat agreed that mask use during sports would make other athletes or coaches less likely to get infected with COVID. However, only 36% of respondents agreed that masks offered self-protection against infection. Thirty-eight percent of athletes somewhat or strongly agreed that masks are comfortable to wear during sports, while 48% disagreed. Forty-four percent of participants felt that mask use interfered with their sports performance. Thirty-four percent of respondents agreed with the statement that mask use during sports is dangerous with 43% in disagreement. When asked to rate concurrence with the statement “I am willing to wear a mask if it allows me to participate in sports and physical activities”, 62% of participants somewhat or strongly agreed while 30% disagreed. Forty-four percent of young athletes reported their sports participation time decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, while 28% reported increased participation. Conclusion: Mask use is an important strategy in preventing the spread of COVID-19. Most young athletes recognize that mask use reduces transmission of infection to others. The majority of participants were willing to comply with mask requirements in order to be allowed to participate in sports. Survey responses indicate that many adolescents have concerns about how masks influence sports safety and performance. For most statements about masking, there was not a strong consensus among young athletes.
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This study focuses on high school athletics. The Japan High School Athletic Federation, which is the central sports organization of the high school athletics competition, and the National High School Athletic Federation, which is the governing body of the high school sports organization, manage the high school athletics category under the umbrella of the National High School Athletic Federation. This paper aimed to analyze the kind of relationship being built with the National Athletics Department, which is responsible for the actual management of the tournament, and to verify whether there is a conflict between the National Athletics Department and the National Athletics Department. Specifically, we analyzed the actual functions of the National High School Championships, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations, and the National High School Championships, and the level of support each organization had at the Inter-High School Championships held during the coronavirus pandemic. Then, based on the articles of incorporation and regulations of each organization, we organized the objectives, business contents, and decision-making of the three organizational operations, and observed conflicts. We found that the National High School Federation and the National High School Federation Land Specialization Department have four local conditions of conflict : "ambiguity of work in charge", "reciprocity of tasks", "common resources", and "mismatch of social evaluation".
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Background: Acute infection with the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 illness results in a wide range of clinical manifestations in the general adult population. The clinical course and effects in non-athletic people have already been studied, but insufficient data is available on athletics. Objectives: This study is designed to evaluate the pattern, clinical course, the outcome of COVID-19 among athletics in Basrah city in the south of Iraq. Design and materials: A comparative study design was used to compare 18 athletics with sexed and aged match 22 non-athletic. Results and conclusion: The study found that no noticeable difference between the duration of hospitalization between the two groups and all the inflammatory biomarkers was slightly lower among the athletics. In addition, the severity of disease among the athletes was less as the higher degree of lung involvement, the severe denaturation, and the occurrence of cytokine storm were higher among non-athletic;moreover, the response to antiviral drug "remdesivir" and the recovery outcome were higher among athletics.
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In the early spring of 2020, the COVID-19 Pandemic invaded the United States and brought not only the economy to a stand-still, but college athletics as well. When all spring college sports were halted, along with the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, it created a loss of revenue for college athletics. This forced college presidents and athletic directors to abandon their old business models in order to restructure their athletic budgets, thus moving both college presidents and athletic directors into uncharted waters. Before the COVID-19 Pandemic college athletics had a problem of long-term debt, offering too many sports, employing too many athletic staff, and paying an extraordinary amount in coach's salary. Because of the Pandemic, college presidents, and athletic directors were forced to make drastic changes that consisted of salary cuts, elimination of sports, and athletic personnel in order to stay afloat. It will take years for athletic budgets to get back to the pre-pandemic era.
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The proceedings contain 74 papers. The topics discussed include: Qatar Health 2022: preparing for the 2022 World Cup and the response to pandemics in Qatar - a multidisciplinary team approach;leveraging primary health care corporation partnerships in preparation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar: a position paper;medical resources deployed for the 2019 world athletics championships in Doha, Qatar;Qatar 2021 national guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behavior: a descriptive review;interprofessional education for safe patient handling during mobilization;antiviral activity of glucose-derived reactive metabolite, methylglyoxal against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2);and coping strategies adopted by Hamad Medical Corporation paramedics before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.