High School Football and Adult Health

Completed

Conditions studied: Health Impairment, Pain, Obesity

In brief

The primary aim of the study is to determine the effect of playing high school football on self-rated health in late adulthood. This is an observational study that will use data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a longitudinal cohort of high school graduates from 1957, to compare graduates who played high school football with comparable graduates who did not play football on self-rated health, pain, functional ability, and weight at the age of 65 years.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03914573

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

3355

Starts

1957-01-01

Expected to finish

2011-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-04-18

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Male

You may not qualify if…

• No yearbook information available to determine football playing status
• Sports participation in yearbook was not recorded under senior photo or in an index
• Played a high contact sport other than football (e.g. hockey)

Where it is running

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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