Gender differences in footwear characteristics between half and full marathons in China: a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT: There are concerns about the risk of injuries caused by marathons in China. Since male and female runners have different injury risks, gender differences in running shoe functionality should be further complemented. A supervised questionnaire survey of 626 marathon runners was collected. The questionnaire was categorized into four sections: (1) participant profile, (2) importance of shoe properties, (3) functional evaluation of shoe properties and (4) importance ranking of shoe properties. The Mann-Whitney U test, Fisher's exact test of cross tabulation and Chi-square test, and two-way ANOVA were used to analyze the results of this survey. The significance level was set at P < 0.05. The full marathon participants were older than the half marathon participants. There was no gender differenc

SUBMITTER: Xia Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10415251 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature