Yesterday, second year graduate athletic training (AT) student Megan Jeffris presented her thesis research to a group of high school students through the Sports Medicine Broadcast in Pasedena, Texas. The Sports Medicine Broadcast is a podcast to promote athletic training through discussion with many people in Sports Medicine and related fields. They desire to use this medium to improve practice, connect students with the real world, and to improve and promote the profession of athletic training.
Megan Jeffris, ATC, LAT is finishing her last term in the Master of Science in Athletic Training (MSAT) program at Missouri State University. Her thesis topic is levels of body satisfaction in collegiate female athletes in relationship to their social media usage.
Megan describes her rational of choosing this thesis topic here’ “through personal struggles and the strain of body dissatisfaction I have witnessed in other female athletes, I chose this topic because I wanted to know why this happens. With all the debate about “is social media a problem or isn’t it?” really got to my nerves; I thought it was naive of society to blame low body satisfaction on one part of our technological lives. There have been body satisfaction issues before social media, and there will continue to be body satisfaction issues after social media in our culture. I looked at self-reported ratings from a quantitative scale and qualitative responses from individual participants to see if there was a discrepancy between their ratings and what they put down on paper — and surely enough, there is.”
You may access Megan’s podcast here: http://sportsmedicinebroadcast.com.
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Well done Megan!