From habits to harm: the effects of lifestyle, sleep, and fitness on injury risk in students using a structural equation modeling approach
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14510%2F25%3A00143858" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14510/25:00143858 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1664822/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1664822/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1664822" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpubh.2025.1664822</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
From habits to harm: the effects of lifestyle, sleep, and fitness on injury risk in students using a structural equation modeling approach
Original language description
Background University students often deal with a mix of challenges - from frequent sports and recreational injuries to habits like smoking, drinking alcohol, or consuming energy drinks, along with irregular sleep and different levels of physical activity. This study examines the links between lifestyle habits, sports participation, sleep quality, self-perceived fitness, and the likelihood of getting injured.Methods In a cross-sectional survey of 933 first-year students (mean age 20.1 +/- 2.5), participants reported lifestyle indicators (cigarettes, alcoholic drinks, energy drinks), sports activity (training volume, athlete/competitive status, sport diversity), sleep quality, self-rated fitness, and the number of injuries causing class absence. Partial least squares structural equation modeling evaluated the measurement properties and the structural paths.Results Sports activity had a strong, positive association with perceived physical fitness. The interaction of lifestyle and sports activity is negatively associated with fitness, indicating that unhealthy habits attenuate sport-related fitness gains. Lifestyle was negatively associated with sleep quality, while better sleep quality positively predicted fitness. Physical fitness did not show a significant direct association with injury counts. Poorer sleep quality was associated with a higher number of injuries.Conclusion In this large student sample, sleep quality emerged as a pivotal, modifiable protector-linked positively to fitness and negatively to injury risk-whereas sports participation improved fitness, but its benefits were undermined by unhealthy lifestyle behaviours. Injury prevention efforts in student populations should therefore combine promotion of healthy lifestyle choices, sleep hygiene interventions, and safe sport practices.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30306 - Sport and fitness sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
ISSN
2296-2565
e-ISSN
2296-2565
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2025
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
001628374000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105023799976