Health-Promoting Behaviors and Their Associations With Factors Related to Well-Being Among Former National Football League Players: An NFL-LONG Study.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Understanding former professional football players' engagement with health-promoting behaviors (physical exercise, high-quality diet, and good sleep hygiene) will be helpful for developing lifestyle interventions to improve their feelings of well-being, a relatively understudied facet of health among this population.

Objective

Examine associations among health-promoting behaviors and subjective outcomes related to well-being among former National Football League (NFL) players.

Design

Cross-sectional.

Setting

Online or hard-copy survey.

Patients or other participants

Former NFL players.

Main outcome measure(s)

Self-reported health-promoting behaviors (exercise frequency, diet quality, and sleep duration and disturbance) and factors related

SUBMITTER: Walton SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11866790 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature