Health Conditions, Substance Use, Physical Activity, and Quality of Life in Current and Former Baseball Players.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A comprehensive understanding of lifestyle (health conditions and substance use), health-related quality of life (HRQoL), flourishing (holistic representation of health), and physical activity can inform stakeholders (players, coaches, and clinicians) and help improve long-term health across the life span.

Purpose

To describe health conditions (comorbidities or diagnoses), substance use, physical activity, HRQoL, and flourishing in current and former collegiate and professional baseball players and to assess the relationship between playing position and HRQoL/flourishing in former baseball players.

Study design

Descriptive epidemiology study.

Methods

Eligible participants were those ≥18 years old with ≥1 season of collegiate or professional baseball

SUBMITTER: Bullock GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8647246 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature