Health-Related Quality of Life With Regard to Smoking, Consumption of Alcohol, and Sports Participation
نویسندگان
1 Gazi University, School of Physical Education and Sport, Ankara, Turkey
2 Gazi University, School of Physical Education and Sport, Ankara, Turkey
3 Institute of Social Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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چکیده
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important determinant in a person’s life.Objectives: In this study aimed at physical education students, alcohol consumption and smoking as risk factors and sports as ahealthy factor could affect HRQoL.Patients and Methods: This study was an analytical cross-sectional study. For our purpose, the subjects (n = 519) were asked toanswer the SF-36 questionnaire (short form health survey for HRQOL). To analyze the data, two-way multivariate analysis of variance(MANOVA), one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), the independent-samples t-test, and Pearson correlation coefficient wereconducted. In this study, the P < 0.05 was considered a significant difference, and due to a Bonferroni correction, for ANOVAs tests,a P < 0.0125 was considered a significant difference.Results: The results suggest that statistically significant differences for alcohol consumption were only obtained from the roleemotional(RE) scale, in which drinkers had lower mean scores than nondrinkers. For smoking, significant differences were obtainedfrom the scales of RE, vitality (VT), emotional well-being (EW), social functioning (SF), and general health (GH), in which nonsmokersoutdid smokers. The combination of alcohol drinking and smoking led to statistically significant lower scores on the REscale and strongly destroyed the role-emotional part of HRQOL.Conclusions: It can be concluded that smoking and alcohol consumption may be related to poor HRQOL in physical education andsports students despite the fact that they regularly engage in sports programs that could positively affect their HRQOL.
