Research Impact: This is the first systematic review to narratively synthesize available evidence from 28 studies of post-primary school-based suicide prevention (PSSP) on suicidal thoughts and behaviors among 47,000 participants. Findings showed significant improvements, poor […]
Research Impact: This meta-ethnography protocol outlines methods to synthesize adolescents’ perspectives on engaging with post-primary school-based suicide prevention (PSSP) interventions, as participants/end-users, intervention advisors, facilitators, and co-designers and co-researchers. Identified full texts will be reviewed […]
Research Impact Summary: These random-effects meta-analyses estimated the population effects of exercise on cognitive outcomes/domains across 15 randomized controlled trials of 899 participants (~43% female) with Severe Mental Illness. In the overall sample, exercise resulted […]
Why train fasted? Training in the fasted state has been practised by athletes for various reasons for centuries. Most early adopters likely pursued fasted training based on the fact that they trained early in the […]
Research Impact: Despite the documented evidence to support the benefits and importance of sleep in promoting physical and mental recovery and performance in athletes it is clear from the current literature that sleep inadequacy has […]
Research Impact: This paper explores the European fitness landscape for children and adolescents. It provides the most up to date reference values, fitness maps and country ranking based on nearly 8 million test results from […]
Research Impact: This article is co-written by teacher educators and pre-service teachers, and shares practical examples of how to design and enact a ‘One Good Idea’ project titled: ‘How We Can All Be Allies’. This […]
Research Impact Summary: The relationship between typical school provision of physical education, physical activity and sports was found to be multifaceted. In the context of physical education, the provision of regular physical education class, extension […]
Research Impact Summary: In this article, a structure for how to craft persuasive stories is provided (i.e., the Narrative Policy Framework tenets of: establishing a plot, casting a set of characters, and highlighting a clear […]
Collaboration between IRIS (Irish Rugby Injury Surveillance) Prof Ian Kenny, Dr Tom Comyns, and Argentinian researchers Prof Eduardo Tondelli and Santiago Zabaloy explored an analysis of Southern hemishpere rugby injury burden resulting from the Covid-19 […]
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