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Social support and the physical activity behaviours of people with a brain injury
1University of North Texas, Denton, USA. sdriver@coe.unt.edu
Primary Objective:
To examine the influence of social support on the physical activity behaviours of individual's with a traumatic brain injury.
Main Outcomes And 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.
