Curtin School of Nursing, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.
Corresponding author: Dr Peter Buzzacott, Curtin School of Nursing, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia,
Diving Hyperb Med. 2022 Mar 31;52(1):16-21. doi: 10.28920/dhm52.1.16-21.
This study aimed to describe recently active adult scuba divers in the United States (US) and compare their characteristics with other active adults. The research question was: do active scuba divers have different health and wellbeing characteristics, compared with adults active in other pursuits?
The Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a proportionally representative annual survey of adults in the US. It is the largest continuous population health survey in the world. Since 2011, data on scuba diving is collected biannually. A comparison group were matched on age, sex, being physically active and state of residence.
The dataset comprised 103,686,087 person-years of monthly behavioural data, including 14,360 person years of monthly scuba data. The median weekly frequency of recent scuba diving was 1.0 times per week and the median weekly duration was equivalent to two dives each of one hour. Compared with the comparison group, divers more often earned > USD$50,000 per year, were less frequently married, with fewer children in the house, which they more often owned. They reported being able to afford a doctor if needed within the previous year, but more often reported excellent/good health and excellent/good mental health, despite the divers being 16% more frequently overweight.
The results demonstrate a relatively healthy cohort of active scuba divers, confirming previous survey results that active divers are commonly college-educated, unmarried, without children, home owning, often overweight, they often currently drink alcohol, and smoked tobacco in the past, but commonly gave up smoking ten years or more ago.
本研究旨在描述美国（美国）最近活跃的成年水肺潜水员，并将其特征与其他活跃成年人进行比较。研究问题是：与从事其他活动的成年人相比，活跃的水肺潜水员是否具有不同的健康和幸福特征？
行为风险因素监测系统（BRFSS）是对美国成年人进行的比例代表性年度调查。它是世界上最大的连续人口健康调查。自 2011 年以来，每两年收集一次水肺潜水数据。比较组在年龄、性别、身体活动和居住州方面进行了匹配。
该数据集包含 103,686,087 个人年的每月行为数据，包括 14,360 个人年的每月水肺数据。最近潜水的每周中位数频率为每周 1.0 次，每周中位数持续时间相当于每次潜水一小时。与对照组相比，潜水员更经常赚取超过 50,000 美元/年，已婚率较低，家中孩子较少，拥有的房子更多。他们报告说，在过去的一年里，如果需要，可以负担得起医生的费用，但更多地报告说身体健康和心理健康良好/良好，尽管潜水员超重的比例高出 16%。
结果表明，活跃的水肺潜水员是一个相对健康的群体，这证实了之前的调查结果，即活跃的潜水员通常受过大学教育、未婚、没有孩子、拥有房屋，经常超重，他们经常现在饮酒，过去吸烟，但通常在十年或更早以前就戒烟了。
