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The levels and predictors of physical activity engagement within the treatment seeking transgender population: a matched control study
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posted on 2017-08-17, 10:17 authored by Beth Jones, Emma HaycraftEmma Haycraft, Walter P. Bouman, Jon ArcelusBackground: Physical activity has been found to alleviate mental health problems and could be beneficial for at-risk populations, such as transgender people. This study had three aims. First, to explore the amount of physical activity that treatment seeking transgender people engage in, and to compare this to matched cisgender people. Second, to determine whether there was a difference in physical activity depending on cross-sex hormone use. Third, to determine factors which predict physical activity among treatment seeking transgender people. Method: Transgender (n=360) and cisgender people (n=314) were recruited from the UK. Participants were asked to complete questionnaires about physical activity, symptoms of anxiety and depression, self-esteem, body satisfaction and transphobia. Results: Transgender people engaged in less physical activity than cisgender people. Transgender people who were on cross-sex hormones engaged in more physical activity than transgender people who were not. In transgender people on cross-sex hormones, high body satisfaction was the best statistical predictor of physical activity while high self-esteem was the best statistical predictor in people who were not. Conclusion: Transgender people are less active than cisgender people. Cross-sex hormone treatment appears to be able to indirectly increase physical activity within this population, which may be beneficial for mental well-being.
Funding
Bethany Jones was supported by a PhD studentship co-funded by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust and Loughborough University.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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Journal of Physical Activity and HealthCitation
JONES, B.A. ... et al, 208. The levels and predictors of physical activity engagement within the treatment seeking transgender population: a matched control study. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 15(2), pp. 99-107.Publisher
© Human Kinetics, Inc.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-08-01Publication date
2018-02-01Notes
Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 15(2), pp. 99-107., https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2017-0298. © Human Kinetics, Inc.ISSN
1543-3080eISSN
1543-5474Publisher version
Language
- en