- Title
- Does sports club participation contribute to health-related quality of life?
- Creator
- Eime, Rochelle; Harvey, Jack; Brown, Wendy; Payne, Warren
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/41045
- Identifier
- vital:2910
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181c3adaa
- Identifier
- ISSN:0195-9131
- Abstract
- Does Sports Club Participation Contribute to Health-Related Quality of Life? Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 1022-1028, 2010. Given the social nature of participation in sport, we hypothesized that club sports participants would have greater well-being and quality of life than participants in other forms of physical activity (PA). Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine health-related quality of life and life satisfaction in women who participate in three contrasting forms of PA: club sport, gym activities, and walking. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of the relationship between type of PA setting and measures of health-related quality of life (Short-Form Health Survey [SF-36]) and life satisfaction in 818 women living in rural Victoria, Australia, in 2007. Data were also compared with those from a normative sample of 2345 women. Results: After adjustment for potential confounders (age,! education, marital status, children aged <16 yr, perceived financial stress, and level of recreational PA), four of the eight SF-36 subscales, the SF-36 mental health component summary score, and life satisfaction were significantly higher in the club sport group than that in the other groups. Conclusion: Although cross-sectional research cannot establish causal links, the results suggest that participation in club sport may enhance the health benefits of PA.
- Publisher
- American College of Sports Medicine
- Relation
- Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise Vol. 42, no. 5 (2010), p. 1022-1028
- Rights
- Copyright American College of Sports Medicine
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; 0903 Biomedical Engineering; Sports; Women; Rural; Physical health; Mental health; Physical activity
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