Community-level Sports Group Participation and Older Individuals’ Depressive Symptoms

Conclusions We found a contextual preventive relationship between community-level sports group participation and depressive symptoms in older individuals. Therefore, promoting sports groups in a community may be effective as a population-based strategy for the prevention of depression in older individuals. Furthermore, the benefit may favor male sports group participants.
Source: Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise - Category: Sports Medicine Tags: Epidemiology Source Type: research