title: An exploratory qualitative investigation of psychosocial determinants of parental decisions to support sport participation for youth with a mobility impairment.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Parents of youth with a mobility impairment (MI) have an important influence on their children's sport participation. The current study consists of an exploratory qualitative investigation of the relevance of HAPA for understanding parental support behaviours for youth with MI's sport participation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Parents of youth athletes (Mage=11.10; SD=2.77) and non-athletes (Mage=11.50; SD=3.84) participated in semi-structured interviews with question development guided by the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Constructs from HAPA were expressed as relevant to parental decisions, with differing subthemes emerging based upon parental group (i.e. parents of non-athletes or parents of athletes). Other constructs that emerged included barriers, facilitators, and resources.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Constructs from the motivational phase of HAPA were relevant for parents of athletes and non-athletes, while the volitional phase demonstrated utility for understanding the views of parents of athletes. Differences between the patterns of responses of both groups were apparent in how the constructs were expressed. Findings identify key areas for research, as well as practical applications. For example, future programs can target parental positions on specific HAPA constructs (e.g. risk perceptions) where differences were found between both groups of parents in order to promote parental decisions that support their children's sport participation.
authors: School of Kinesiology & Health Studies, Queen's University, 28 Division St, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6.
authors: Celina H
authors: CH
authors: Shirazipour
authors: School of Kinesiology & Health Studies, Queen's University, 28 Division St, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6. Electronic address: amy.latimer@queensu.ca.
authors: Amy E
authors: AE
authors: Latimer-Cheung
authors: Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education, University of Toronto, 55 Harbord Street, Warren Steven Building 2041, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 2W6.
authors: Kelly P
authors: KP
authors: Arbour-Nicitopoulos
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000690:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; D001294:Attitude to Health; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002547:Cerebral Palsy; D002607:Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease; D002648:Child; D004480:Ectromelia; D005260:Female; D005621:Friedreich Ataxia; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D051346:Mobility Limitation; D009042:Motivation; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D015518:Rett Syndrome; D012306:Risk; D020377:Self Efficacy; D016135:Spinal Dysraphism; D014897:Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood; D064846:Sports for Persons with Disabilities
keywords: Health Action Process Approach; Mobility impairment; Parents; Sport; Youth