MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Dr Helen Keyes  PhD, AFBPsS, SFHEA Head of School  Psychology & Sport Science Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What types of sporting events? Response: The data were collected as part of a large government study looking at a range of measures on health and activities across the UK population. Our study honed in on aspects of wellbeing – life satisfaction, loneliness, happiness, anxiety, a sense that life is worthwhile – as well as whether participants had attended a live sporting event in the last year. The data collected did not differentiate between different types of sport – the positive effects that we report for wellbeing are population-wide across a whole range of sports, from attending a local football match all the way up to elite sporting events. (more…)