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A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Anti-Doping Education for University Students (2025)
Journal Article
Nicholls, A. R., Lazuras, L., Petrou, M., Corazza, O., Santos, C., Nunes, A. J., Rynkowski, M., Martins, J. F., Zandonai, T., Kühn, U., & Tota, Ł. (2025). A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Anti-Doping Education for University Students. Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health, 5, Article 100168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etdah.2024.100168

Abstract
Background: Doping poses a threat to the integrity of sport and the health of athletes who dope, including university students. In this systematic review, we identified the content of anti-doping education that universities provide, the dis... Read More about A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Anti-Doping Education for University Students.

Stressors and coping strategies in esports: a systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Leis, O., Sharpe, B. T., Pelikan, V., Fritsch, J., Nicholls, A. R., & Poulus, D. (online). Stressors and coping strategies in esports: a systematic review. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/1750984X.2024.2386528

In this systematic review, we provide an overview of stressors and coping strategies in esports, emphasizing the goal of informing applied practice and guiding future research. Guided by the PRISMA guidelines and employing the SPIDER framework, we sy... Read More about Stressors and coping strategies in esports: a systematic review.

Home-based high intensity interval training in patients with intermittent claudication: a systematic review protocol (2024)
Journal Article
Prosser, J., Staniland, T., Harwood, A., Ravindhran, B., McGregor, G., Huang, C., Twiddy, M., Nicholls, A., Ingle, L., Long, J., Chetter, I., & Pymer, S. (2024). Home-based high intensity interval training in patients with intermittent claudication: a systematic review protocol. Journal of Vascular Societies Great Britain and Ireland, 3(3), 155-159. https://doi.org/10.54522/jvsgbi.2024.103

Introduction: The aim of this systematic review is to consider the evidence base for home-based high intensity interval training (HIIT) in patients with intermittent claudication (IC). Prior knowledge of the evidence base suggests that there may be l... Read More about Home-based high intensity interval training in patients with intermittent claudication: a systematic review protocol.

High INtensity Interval Training in pATiEnts with Intermittent Claudication: A Qualitative Acceptability Study (2024)
Journal Article
Pymer, S., Harwood, A., Ibeggazene, S., McGregor, G., Huang, C., Nicholls, A., Ingle, L., Long, J., Rooms, M., Chetter, I. C., & Twiddy, M. (2024). High INtensity Interval Training in pATiEnts with Intermittent Claudication: A Qualitative Acceptability Study. Annals of vascular surgery, 102, 17-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avsg.2023.11.043

Background: A novel high-intensity interval training (HIIT) program has demonstrated feasibility for patients with intermittent claudication (IC). The aim of this study was to explore patient perspectives of the HIIT program to inform refinement and... Read More about High INtensity Interval Training in pATiEnts with Intermittent Claudication: A Qualitative Acceptability Study.

“Time may change me, but you can’t trace time”: the (In)stability of psycho-social doping profiles among adolescent athletes (2023)
Journal Article
Nicholls, A. R., & Perry, J. L. (in press). “Time may change me, but you can’t trace time”: the (In)stability of psycho-social doping profiles among adolescent athletes. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197X.2023.2274414

The Adolescent Sport Doping Inventory (ASDI; [Nicholls, A. R., Levy, A. R., Meir, R., Sanctuary, C., Jones, L., Baghurst, T., Thompson, M. A., & Perry, J. L. (2019). The development and validation of the adolescent sport drug inventory (ASDI) among a... Read More about “Time may change me, but you can’t trace time”: the (In)stability of psycho-social doping profiles among adolescent athletes.

High-intensity interval training in patients with intermittent claudication (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pymer, S., Harwood, A. E., Prosser, J., Waddell, A., Rhavindhran, B., McGregor, G., Ibeggazene, S., Huang, C., Twiddy, M., Nicholls, A. R., Ingle, L., Carroll, S., He, H., Long, J., Rooms, M., & Chetter, I. C. High-intensity interval training in patients with intermittent claudication. Presented at 2022 Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Scientific Meeting, Brighton, UK

Objective: Provision, uptake, adherence, and completion rates for supervised exercise programs (SEP) for intermittent claudication (IC) are low. A shorter, more time-efficient, 6-week, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) program may be an effecti... Read More about High-intensity interval training in patients with intermittent claudication.

Multi-wave analyses of coping, athlete burnout, and well-being among F. A. Premier League academy players (2022)
Journal Article
Nicholls, A. R., Madigan, D. J., & Earle, K. (2022). Multi-wave analyses of coping, athlete burnout, and well-being among F. A. Premier League academy players. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 979486. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.979486

Being a player with an F. A. Premier football academy is very prestigious for young players, but it can also be very stressful too. Coping with stress is particularly important given that one of the undesirable consequences linked to chronic stress i... Read More about Multi-wave analyses of coping, athlete burnout, and well-being among F. A. Premier League academy players.

Snitches get Stitches and End up in Ditches: A Systematic Review of the Factors Associated with Whistleblowing Intentions (2021)
Journal Article
Nicholls, A. R., Fairs, L. R., Toner, J., Jones, L., Mantis, C., Barkoukis, V., Perry, J. L., Micle, A. V., Theodorou, N. C., Shakhverdieva, S., Stoicescu, M., Vesic, M. V., Dikic, N., Andjelkovic, M., Muñoz-Guerra Revilla, J., Grimau, E. G., Martínez, M. A., Amigo, J. A., & Schomöller, A. (2021). Snitches get Stitches and End up in Ditches: A Systematic Review of the Factors Associated with Whistleblowing Intentions. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 631538. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631538

Blowing the whistle on corruption or wrongdoing can facilitate the detection, investigation, and then prosecution of a violation that may have otherwise gone undetected. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify the factors that are assoc... Read More about Snitches get Stitches and End up in Ditches: A Systematic Review of the Factors Associated with Whistleblowing Intentions.

Pleasant emotions widen thought-action repertoires, develop long-term resources, and improve reaction time performance: A multi-study examination of the Broaden-and-Build theory among athletes (2021)
Journal Article
Perry, J. L., Burke, R., Toner, J., Thompson, M., & Nicholls, A. R. (2021). Pleasant emotions widen thought-action repertoires, develop long-term resources, and improve reaction time performance: A multi-study examination of the Broaden-and-Build theory among athletes. Journal of sport & exercise psychology, 43(2), 155-170. https://doi.org/10.1123/JSEP.2020-0192

The authors investigated relationships between emotions, coping, and resilience across two studies. In Study 1a, 319 athletes completed dispositional questionnaires relating to the aforementioned constructs. In Study 1b, 126 athletes from Study 1a re... Read More about Pleasant emotions widen thought-action repertoires, develop long-term resources, and improve reaction time performance: A multi-study examination of the Broaden-and-Build theory among athletes.

Investigating the alignment between coaches’ ideological beliefs and academy philosophy in professional youth football (2020)
Journal Article
Hall, J., Cope, E., Townsend, R. C., & Nicholls, A. R. (in press). Investigating the alignment between coaches’ ideological beliefs and academy philosophy in professional youth football. Sport, Education and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2020.1856061

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The impacts of professional sporting culture and institutional discourse on coaching practices and ideologies have largely been unconsidered and undiscussed. Understanding coaching pract... Read More about Investigating the alignment between coaches’ ideological beliefs and academy philosophy in professional youth football.