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Psychological well-being and quality of life in visually impaired baseball players: An Italian national survey
Italian baseball played by visually impaired and blind athletes is an adapted team sport which maintains the peculiar fast-moving features of this popular sport. It is also a mixed team game played together with sighted subjects. Here, we performed a national survey aimed at assessing the difference...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6553783/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31170226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218124 |
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author | Mirandola, Daniela Monaci, Marco Miccinesi, Guido Vannuzzi, Alessia Sgambati, Eleonora Manetti, Mirko Marini, Mirca |
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description | Italian baseball played by visually impaired and blind athletes is an adapted team sport which maintains the peculiar fast-moving features of this popular sport. It is also a mixed team game played together with sighted subjects. Here, we performed a national survey aimed at assessing the differences in psychological well-being (PWB) and quality of life (QoL) between visually impaired baseball players from Italian teams and non-players using a structured online questionnaire. Forty-three visually impaired baseball players and thirty-four visually impaired sedentary individuals completed a structured self-report survey including the validated 18-item Italian versions of the PWB (PWB-18) scale and the Short Form-12 (SF-12) questionnaire to assess the QoL. PWB-18 and SF-12 reference data from the Italian normally sighted population were also employed for comparison with the visually impaired baseball player group. Visually impaired baseball players reported better scores in all dimensions of the PWB-18 scale and significant higher scores in both physical and mental QoL evaluated by SF-12 than the non-player group. In addition, PWB-18 scale findings revealed significant differences between visually impaired baseball players and the reference normally sighted population consisting in lower scores for autonomy, environmental mastery, positive relations with others and purpose in life dimensions. Conversely, the mean scores for PWB-18 personal growth and self-acceptance dimensions were not significantly different between the two groups. The SF-12 questionnaire results demonstrated a significantly higher physical score in visually impaired players compared with the reference population. Instead, the SF-12 mental score of visually impaired athletes tended to be lower, though this difference was not statistically significant. Collectively, our findings suggest that the practice of Italian baseball may have a positive impact on PWB and QoL of visually impaired individuals. |
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spelling | pubmed-65537832019-06-17 Psychological well-being and quality of life in visually impaired baseball players: An Italian national survey Mirandola, Daniela Monaci, Marco Miccinesi, Guido Vannuzzi, Alessia Sgambati, Eleonora Manetti, Mirko Marini, Mirca PLoS One Research Article Italian baseball played by visually impaired and blind athletes is an adapted team sport which maintains the peculiar fast-moving features of this popular sport. It is also a mixed team game played together with sighted subjects. Here, we performed a national survey aimed at assessing the differences in psychological well-being (PWB) and quality of life (QoL) between visually impaired baseball players from Italian teams and non-players using a structured online questionnaire. Forty-three visually impaired baseball players and thirty-four visually impaired sedentary individuals completed a structured self-report survey including the validated 18-item Italian versions of the PWB (PWB-18) scale and the Short Form-12 (SF-12) questionnaire to assess the QoL. PWB-18 and SF-12 reference data from the Italian normally sighted population were also employed for comparison with the visually impaired baseball player group. Visually impaired baseball players reported better scores in all dimensions of the PWB-18 scale and significant higher scores in both physical and mental QoL evaluated by SF-12 than the non-player group. In addition, PWB-18 scale findings revealed significant differences between visually impaired baseball players and the reference normally sighted population consisting in lower scores for autonomy, environmental mastery, positive relations with others and purpose in life dimensions. Conversely, the mean scores for PWB-18 personal growth and self-acceptance dimensions were not significantly different between the two groups. The SF-12 questionnaire results demonstrated a significantly higher physical score in visually impaired players compared with the reference population. Instead, the SF-12 mental score of visually impaired athletes tended to be lower, though this difference was not statistically significant. Collectively, our findings suggest that the practice of Italian baseball may have a positive impact on PWB and QoL of visually impaired individuals. Public Library of Science 2019-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6553783/ /pubmed/31170226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218124 Text en © 2019 Mirandola et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mirandola, Daniela Monaci, Marco Miccinesi, Guido Vannuzzi, Alessia Sgambati, Eleonora Manetti, Mirko Marini, Mirca Psychological well-being and quality of life in visually impaired baseball players: An Italian national survey |
title | Psychological well-being and quality of life in visually impaired baseball players: An Italian national survey |
title_full | Psychological well-being and quality of life in visually impaired baseball players: An Italian national survey |
title_fullStr | Psychological well-being and quality of life in visually impaired baseball players: An Italian national survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychological well-being and quality of life in visually impaired baseball players: An Italian national survey |
title_short | Psychological well-being and quality of life in visually impaired baseball players: An Italian national survey |
title_sort | psychological well-being and quality of life in visually impaired baseball players: an italian national survey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6553783/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31170226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218124 |
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