The Influence of Recreational Hiking on the Prevalence of Cardiovascular and Psychiatric Diseases Among Population of Republic of Serbia.

IF 2.4 4区 医学 Q2 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Milos Gostimirovic, Jovana Rajkovic, Ana Bukarica, Ljiljana Gojkovic-Bukarica
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Background: Hiking is a physical activity recommended for people of all ages. In an era of increased incidence of cardiovascular and psychiatric diseases, directing individuals to hiking can be very important from both public health and socioeconomic perspectives. Since the health status of recreational hikers and the general population in the Republic of Serbia has not been compared yet, our objectives are to compare the health-related characteristics of those two groups, including the prevalence of comorbidities, pharmacotherapy, and drug consumption. Methods: A descriptive epidemiological study was conducted. Research questions were asked via two specially prepared questionnaires distributed through the Google Forms platform. The means of the two groups were tested by a two-sample Student t-test for independent variables. Results: The sample consisted of 259 hikers and 292 people from the general population. A total of 199 hikers (76.8%) and 218 people from the general population group (74.7%) were declared as healthy. The statistically significant differences between the groups included age, sex, education level, and body mass index. In both groups, the majority of those with pre-existing medical conditions had at least one cardiovascular disease (23.5% of the hikers and 19.5% of the individuals in the general group). Pre-existing psychiatric diseases were noted in 6% of the hikers and in 12% of those in the general group. The average durations of the disease in the hiker and general population were 11.9 and 8.4 years, respectively (p < 0.05), whereas, there were no differences in drug consumption. Conclusions: This pilot study represents the comparison of the cardiovascular and mental health among hikers and the general population in the Republic of Serbia. Although psychiatric diseases were clearly less prevalent among hikers, the prevalence and burden of cardiovascular diseases must be interpreted with caution, due to big age difference between the respondents from both groups. However, our future studies will employ objective measurements and clinical parameters rather than self-reported surveys, so that the health benefits of hiking appear more clearly.

休闲徒步旅行对塞尔维亚共和国居民心血管疾病和精神疾病患病率的影响。
背景:徒步旅行是一项适合所有年龄人群的体育活动。在心血管和精神疾病发病率增加的时代,从公共卫生和社会经济角度来看,指导个人徒步旅行可能非常重要。由于尚未对塞尔维亚共和国的休闲徒步旅行者和一般人口的健康状况进行比较,我们的目标是比较这两组人的健康相关特征,包括合并症的患病率、药物治疗和药物消费。方法:采用描述性流行病学调查。研究问题通过谷歌Forms平台分发的两份特别准备的问卷进行提问。两组的均值采用自变量的双样本Student t检验。结果:样本由259名徒步旅行者和292名普通人群组成。199名徒步旅行者(76.8%)和218名普通人群(74.7%)被宣布为健康。统计上各组之间的显著差异包括年龄、性别、教育水平和体重指数。在这两组中,大多数已有疾病的人至少患有一种心血管疾病(徒步旅行者的23.5%和普通组的19.5%)。在徒步旅行者中,有6%的人有先前存在的精神疾病,而在普通人群中,这一比例为12%。徒步旅行者和一般人群的平均病程分别为11.9年和8.4年(p < 0.05),而药物用量无差异。结论:这项初步研究比较了塞尔维亚共和国徒步旅行者和普通人群的心血管和心理健康状况。虽然精神疾病在徒步旅行者中明显较少流行,但由于两组受访者的年龄差异很大,因此必须谨慎解释心血管疾病的患病率和负担。然而,我们未来的研究将采用客观测量和临床参数,而不是自我报告的调查,以便更清楚地显示徒步旅行的健康益处。
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Healthcare
Healthcare Medicine-Health Policy
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3.50
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47 days
期刊介绍: Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal (free for readers), which publishes original theoretical and empirical work in the interdisciplinary area of all aspects of medicine and health care research. Healthcare publishes Original Research Articles, Reviews, Case Reports, Research Notes and Short Communications. We encourage researchers to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. For theoretical papers, full details of proofs must be provided so that the results can be checked; for experimental papers, full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Additionally, electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculations, experimental procedure, etc., can be deposited along with the publication as “Supplementary Material”.
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