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Wheelchair archers report better quality of life and social integration from their sport, as much as athletes in other wheelchair sports

1 study · 48 archers measured

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There is a single data point, from 2025, and it measures what the athletes say. Twelve Indonesian wheelchair student-athletes who practise archery filled in a fifteen-item questionnaire and were interviewed: on scales from 4 to 16 they gave 13.92 to quality of life, 13.83 to social integration and 13.83 to a sense of meaning in their lives, and on quality of life nobody went below 12. The same twelve also reported barriers to taking part, 7.33 on a scale from 3 to 12, and none of them sat at the low end. The most useful result in the study is the comparison with twelve athletes each from wheelchair tennis, athletics and fencing, because the perceived benefit does not change across the four sports (p = 0.425). What can be said, then, is that wheelchair archers report benefits as high as athletes in other sports, not that archery offers anything special; nor that the sport is the cause, since people who are still active and agree to answer a questionnaire are already a selected group.

Also phrased as: "para archery and wellbeing"; "wheelchair archery and quality of life"; "archery as an inclusive sport"; "wheelchair sport and social integration"

In practice

Clubs and governing bodies often describe archery as one of the most inclusive sports, because wheelchair archers shoot on the same line as everyone else, and say that for the people who do it the sport becomes a place to belong.

Evidence

Status history

  1. 2025 Reported The only study on this record arrives. Twelve Indonesian wheelchair student-athletes who practise archery report quality of life at 13.92, social integration at 13.83 and sense of meaning at 13.83 on scales from 4 to 16, and they also describe real barriers to taking part. The comparison with twelve athletes each from wheelchair tennis, athletics and fencing shows no difference (p = 0.425), so nothing the archers report is specific to archery. A single study, twelve archers, all measures self-reported: reported.

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APA

Campagna, M. (2026). Wheelchair archers report better quality of life and social integration from their sport, as much as athletes in other wheelchair sports (Version 2). In Evidence Registry. Retrieved 16 October 2026, from https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/wheelchair-archery-quality-of-life

BibTeX
@misc{campagna2026_arcocarrozzinabenessere,
  author = {Campagna, Matteo},
  title = {Wheelchair archers report better quality of life and social integration from their sport, as much as athletes in other wheelchair sports},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Evidence Registry, matteocampagna.com},
  url = {https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/wheelchair-archery-quality-of-life},
  note = {Version 2; accessed 2026-10-16}
}

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