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Mental Health and Youth Sports : = The Importance of Adding a Smartphone App to Improve Awareness, Education, and Resources for Youth Athletes.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mental Health and Youth Sports :/
Reminder of title:	The Importance of Adding a Smartphone App to Improve Awareness, Education, and Resources for Youth Athletes.
Author:	Gast, Kelli Ann.
Description:	1 online resource (106 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-03B.
Subject:	Mental health. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798380159197

Mental Health and Youth Sports : = The Importance of Adding a Smartphone App to Improve Awareness, Education, and Resources for Youth Athletes.
Gast, Kelli Ann.

Mental Health and Youth Sports :The Importance of Adding a Smartphone App to Improve Awareness, Education, and Resources for Youth Athletes. - 1 online resource (106 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: B.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--The University of North Dakota, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

There is an alarming rate of mental health concerns among today's youth. Similar trends also show increased anxiety and stress in youth sports. This dissertation examined the impact of a youth sports mental health app called M3Moorhead, which targets mental health and sports psychology education tools and connections for mental health support. Additionally, this study aimed to understand why youth athletes were motivated to download the app, what parts of the app were most helpful, and what motivated the youth athletes to engage in the app. The data for this study was collected through an online survey with the parents or guardians of youth athletes affiliated with the Moorhead Youth Hockey Association. This association has partnered with a non-profit mental health organization called m3 for the past couple of years. This dissertation demonstrated that out of the 57 respondents who participated, almost half had not heard of the m3 app, which suggests that poor awareness, rather than app content, is responsible for the lack of engagement in the app. The themes included in the study showed that parents or caregivers wanted their youth athletes to have access to sports psychology tools and find many of the content modules helpful. There was less desire for the part of the app that provided youth with immediate mental health support, even though the community has been impacted by youth suicide. The findings indicate that education and awareness on the m3 app must be refocused and prioritized to learn more about what is working in the m3 app. Lastly, future implications around increasing engagement in the app, including interactive videos and game-like features, are discussed as critical next steps.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380159197Subjects--Topical Terms:

564038
Mental health.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Social-emotional curriculumIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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