Sports activities and mental distress in young people in deprived urban areas in South America: a cross-sectional analysis

Sofia Madero; Luis Ignacio Brusco; Francisco Diez-Canseco; Carlos Gómez-Restrepo; Natividad Olivar; Pablo Ezequiel Flores-Kanter; Sumiko Flores; Ana L. Vilela-Estrada; Ángela Flórez-Varela; M. Esteban Uribe Pinto; Diliniya Stanislaus Sureshkumar; Catherine Fung; Stefan Priebe

doi:10.1186/s13104-025-07288-y

Sports activities and mental distress in young people in deprived urban areas in South America: a cross-sectional analysis

Sofia Madero
, Luis Ignacio Brusco
, Francisco Diez-Canseco
, Carlos Gómez-Restrepo
, Natividad Olivar
, Pablo Ezequiel Flores-Kanter
, Sumiko Flores
, Ana L. Vilela-Estrada
, Ángela Flórez-Varela
, M. Esteban Uribe Pinto
, Diliniya Stanislaus Sureshkumar
, Catherine Fung
, Stefan Priebe

Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Universidad de Buenos Aires
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Hospital Universitario San Ignacio
Universidad Javeriana
Queen Mary University of London
University of Hamburg

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Objective: To explore the association between sport activities and depression/anxiety symptoms among young people in disadvantaged urban areas of South America. Results: Out of a total of 2375 participants, 1131 (47.1%) had engaged in sports in the previous month. Sports activities, particularly those performed with others, were associated with lower anxiety and depression. There was a trend for this association to be stronger in male than in female participants.

Original language	English
Article number	257
Pages (from-to)	257
Journal	BMC research notes
Volume	18
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-025-07288-y
State	Published - 01 Jul 2025

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Keywords

Adolescent
Adult
Anxiety/epidemiology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Depression/epidemiology
Female
Humans
Male
Psychological Distress
South America/epidemiology
Sports/psychology
Urban Population/statistics & numerical data
Young Adult

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Madero, S., Brusco, L. I., Diez-Canseco, F., Gómez-Restrepo, C., Olivar, N., Flores-Kanter, P. E., Flores, S., Vilela-Estrada, A. L., Flórez-Varela, Á., Uribe Pinto, M. E., Stanislaus Sureshkumar, D., Fung, C., & Priebe, S. (2025). Sports activities and mental distress in young people in deprived urban areas in South America: a cross-sectional analysis. BMC research notes, 18(1), 257. Article 257. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-025-07288-y

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