An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Community Sports Activities and Community Residents’ Mental Health

Abstract

A full understanding of mental health can improve people’s ability to identify mental diseases and cope with psychological problems, so as to improve the ability of the whole community to resist mental diseases. Community health education is particularly important in community mental health service. The traditional health education mode is carried out through lectures or paper brochures, and the effect is not significant, so we need to constantly improve the health education mode. Through the development of community mental health education and service, we can improve people’s mental health quality and promote family happiness and social stability. Based on this, this study mainly analyzes the relationship between community sports activities and mental health of community residents. Physical exercise can reduce stress reaction, regulate emotion, enhance mental health, prevent, and treat mental diseases. Therefore, physical exercise has been used not only as a method to enhance physical fitness but also as an important means to regulate psychology.

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“…The community can provide commonplace/gym to do physical exercises and can organize several sports activities to keep the youth active and to promote positive mental health (Appelqvist-Schmidlechner et al, 2018;Wang & Xing, 2022). The community can also organize several creative cultural events to keep the community together and to promote positive mental health (Cohen et al, 2007;Kading et al, 2015).…”

“…Every university/college should add to their curriculum a course on positive mental health for all the students. The promotion of positive mental health activities needs (Iheanacho et al, 2015) Providing education on mental health (Bourns & Holt, 2003) Providing support system (Bourns & Holt, 2003) Organizing sports (Appelqvist-Schmidlechner et al, 2018;Wang & Xing, 2022) Organizing cultural events (Cohen et al, 2007) Table 8 Interventions and strategies at policy and governance level Coming up with creative programs and initiatives and to implement them at all HEI (Palaniswamy, 2022) Creating a separate center under health department to promote positive mental health (Palaniswamy, 2022) Providing more training to mental health professionals and to appoint them in every HEI (Palaniswamy, 2022) Creating national-, state-, district-level mental resource centers (Johnson et al, 2022;Teachman et al, 2022) Promoting and supporting digital technology-based help applications to promote positive mental health (Johnson et al, 2022;Teachman et al, 2022) Note: HEI, Higher Educational Institutions.…”

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“…Regular physical activity is proven to help prevent disease, enhance physical fitness and enhance mental health (D. Wang & Xing, 2022). According to current global estimates, one-fourth of adults and 81% of adolescents do not have enough physical activity (Physical Activity, n.d.).…”