Arthralgia in female Masters weightlifters

OVERVIEW

1. Title of Dataset: Arthralgia in female Master weightlifters

2. Author Information

Name: Marianne Huebner
Institution: Michigan State University
Address: East Lansing, MI 48824

3. Period of data collection: 27 April – 20 May 2022

4. Geographic region of data collection: Online survey in USA with participants from 30 countries in IWF regions Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, PanAmerican

LIST OF FILES

Dataset: wlmeno_oa.csv
Data dictionary: wlmeno_oa_meta.xlsx

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: The survey was distributed by the Master Committee of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) to the National Master Chairs. They then used email or social media to communicate the study to the women weightlifters. The Survey was available in four languages (English, German, French, Spanish), translated and tested by native speakers. In addition, the survey was advertised in weightlifting interest groups via Facebook and Instagram. The survey was administered online via Qualtrics (Provo, UT, USA).

2. Methods for processing the data: Data were downloaded from Qualtrics (Provo, UT, USA) to Excel and then pre-processed in the statistical software R v. 4.3.0. (https://www.r-project.org)

 Variable formats (numeric, character) were checked and transformed, as appropriate.

3. Quality-assurance procedures performed on the data:  Exclusion criteria were younger than 30 years (n=1), currently pregnant (n=3). To account for the possibility of male participants missing responses to age of menstruation or prior pregnancies (n=22), were also excluded. Since the focus was on active weightlifters, missing best snatch or clean and jerk in the last 6 months (n=18) were also exclusion criteria. This resulted in an analysis data set of 868 females. Univariate distributions were evaluated numerically and graphically. 

DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION

1.Number of variables: 51

2.Number of cases/rows: 868

3.Variable List: wlmeno_oa.xlsx

4.Missing data codes: empty cells