Social support and the physical activity behaviours of people with a brain injury.
OBJECTIVE
To examine the influence of social support on the physical activity behaviours of individual's with a traumatic brain injury.


RESULTS
The paper defines social support as a multi-dimensional construct and reviews relevant literature describing how the type and source of social support changes post-brain injury. These findings are then applied to a physical activity domain with the use of a conceptual framework. Discussion finally focuses on research applications and appropriate measures of social support within a physical activity environment.


CONCLUSIONS
This paper will provide physical activity programmers with an understanding of how social support influences physical activity participation, a conceptual framework to guide programming and appropriate measures of social support for research purposes.
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University of North Texas, Denton, USA. sdriver@coe.unt.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002648:Child; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D012944:Social Support