Empowered, Yet Vulnerable: Motives for Sport Participation, Health Correlates, and Experience of Sexual Harassment in Female Combat-Sport Athletes.
Therese Fostervold MathisenRadhika Singh KumarKethe M E Svantorp-TveitenJorunn Sundgot-BorgenPublished in: Sports (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
Combat sport offers an inclusive milieu, which may increase women's health and confidence; still, our results indicates a need for actions to safeguard female combat-sport athletes' mental and physical health, implying a cultural change within the community of combat sport and a need for increased health and nutrition literacy.