Perceived Health Benefits of Martial Arts and Combat Sports, 268 Practitioners

268 martial arts and combat sports practitioners participated in a cross-sectional study exploring associations between self-rated health and perceived health benefits. The dataset, authored by Erika Zormann and published on figshare in April 2026, includes responses from a MA/CS-specific questionnaire and widely used mental and physical health measures. It examines the relationship of training age and frequency with perceived health benefits.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between training age and perceived health benefits based on the study's regression results.
• Investigate associations between mental and physical health scores based on the described measures.
• Explore the reported health benefits independent of training frequency as indicated in the discussion.
• Replicate the hierarchical multiple linear regression analyses on self-rated health and perceived benefits.

Strengths

• Includes data from 268 participants, providing a substantive sample size.
• Utilizes both domain-specific (MA/CS) and widely recognized health measurement instruments.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is provided only in a 121.5 KB PDF format, which may require extraction for analysis.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Cross-sectional study using questionnaires.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 04:12:02; freshness should be verified.

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