The association between adolescent football participation and early adulthood depression

Autor: Jordan Weiss, Dylan S. Small, Raiden B. Hasegawa, Sameer K. Deshpande
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Gerontology
Male
Social Sciences
Football
Adolescents
Families
0302 clinical medicine
Sociology
Risk Factors
Epidemiology
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
030212 general & internal medicine
Longitudinal Studies
Prospective Studies
Young adult
Children
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Cognitive Impairment
education.field_of_study
Multidisciplinary
Schools
Depression
Cognitive Neurology
Youth Sports
Sports Science
Neurology
Research Design
Cohort
Medicine
Research Article
Sports
Personality
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Science
Cognitive Neuroscience
Population
Research and Analysis Methods
Education
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Mental Health and Psychiatry
medicine
Humans
Risk factor
education
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Behavior
Mood Disorders
Biology and Life Sciences
United States
Age Groups
Adolescent Behavior
People and Places
Recreation
Cognitive Science
Observational study
Population Groupings
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Neuroscience
Follow-Up Studies
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 3, p e0229978 (2020)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Concerned about potentially increased risk of neurodegenerative disease, several health professionals and policy makers have proposed limiting or banning youth participation in American-style tackle football. Given the large affected population (over 1 million boys play high school football annually), careful estimation of the long-term health effects of playing football is necessary for developing effective public health policy. Unfortunately, existing attempts to estimate these effects tend not to generalize to current participants because they either studied a much older cohort or, more seriously, failed to account for potential confounding. We leverage data from a nationally representative cohort of American men who were in grades 7-12 in the 1994-95 school year to estimate the effect of playing football in adolescent on depression in early adulthood. We control for several potential confounders related to subjects' health, behavior, educational experience, family background, and family health history through matching and regression adjustment. We found no evidence of even a small harmful effect of football participation on scores on a version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D) nor did we find evidence of adverse associations with several secondary outcomes including anxiety disorder diagnosis or alcohol dependence in early adulthood. For men who were in grades 7-12 in the 1994-95 school year, participating or intending to participate in school football does not appear to be a major risk factor for early adulthood depression.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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