%0 Journal Article %T Asthma and youth soccer: an investigation into the level of asthma awareness and training among youth soccer coaches %A Andrew Cave %A Chandu Sadasivan %J Archive of "Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine". %D 2019 %R 10.2147/OAJSM.S182178 %X Asthma is the most common chronic disease among children. Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction which is common in asthmatic patients also occurs in individuals with no prior asthma diagnosis. Despite this and the fact that soccer is a high ventilation sport, there are no validated asthma management protocols in place for soccer coaches. This study aims to address 1) soccer coaches¡¯ current knowledge on asthma, 2) whether there is a need for asthma-related training, and 3) any barriers to administration of such training %K coaching %K exercise-induced bronchoconstriction %K management %K protocol %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6339450/