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How does playing adapted sports affect quality of life of people with mobility limitations? Results from a mixed-method sequential explanatory study

Overview of attention for article published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, January 2017
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Title
How does playing adapted sports affect quality of life of people with mobility limitations? Results from a mixed-method sequential explanatory study
Published in
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12955-017-0597-9
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Félix Côté-Leclerc, Gabrielle Boileau Duchesne, Patrick Bolduc, Amélie Gélinas-Lafrenière, Corinne Santerre, Johanne Desrosiers, Mélanie Levasseur

Abstract

Occupations, including physical activity, are a strong determinant of health. However, mobility limitations can restrict opportunities to perform these occupations, which may affect quality of life. Some people will turn to adapted sports to meet their need to be involved in occupations. Little is known, however, about how participation in adapted sports affects the quality of life of people with mobility limitations. This study thus aimed to explore the influence of adapted sports on quality of life in adult wheelchair users. A mixed-method sequential explanatory design was used, including a quantitative and a qualitative component with a clinical research design. A total of 34 wheelchair users aged 18 to 62, who regularly played adapted sports, completed the Quality of Life Index (/30). Their scores were compared to those obtained by people of similar age without limitations (general population). Ten of the wheelchair users also participated in individual semi-structured interviews exploring their perceptions regarding how sports-related experiences affected their quality of life. The participants were 9 women and 25 men with paraplegia, the majority of whom worked and played an individual adapted sport (athletics, tennis or rugby) at the international or national level. People with mobility limitations who participated in adapted sports had a quality of life comparable to the group without limitations (21.9 ± 3.3 vs 22.3 ± 2.9 respectively), except for poorer family-related quality of life (21.0 ± 5.3 vs 24.1 ± 4.9 respectively). Based on the interviews, participants reported that the positive effect of adapted sports on the quality of life of people with mobility limitations operates mainly through the following: personal factors (behavior-related abilities and health), social participation (in general and through interpersonal relationships), and environmental factors (society's perceptions and support from the environment). Some contextual factors, such as resources and the accessibility of organizations and training facilities, are important and contributed indirectly to quality of life. Negative aspects, such as performance-related stress and injury, also have an effect. People with mobility limitations playing adapted sports and people without limitations have a similar quality of life. Participation in adapted sports was identified as having positive effects on self-esteem, self-efficacy, sense of belonging, participation in meaningful activities, society's attitude towards people with mobility limitations, and physical well-being. However, participants stated that this involvement, especially at higher levels, had a negative impact on their social life.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Denmark 1 <1%
Unknown 324 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 52 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 40 12%
Student > Bachelor 38 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 27 8%
Researcher 18 6%
Other 48 15%
Unknown 102 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 49 15%
Sports and Recreations 39 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 33 10%
Psychology 24 7%
Social Sciences 19 6%
Other 37 11%
Unknown 124 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 June 2022.
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#2,350,750
of 22,729,647 outputs
Outputs from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
#142
of 2,156 outputs
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#51,918
of 417,739 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
#4
of 46 outputs
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