Sports injury research
By: edited by Evert Verhagen, Willem van Mechelen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780199561629
Description: "With the increasing focus on tackling obesity and other lifestyle-related illnesses and conditions, participation in sports and physical activity is growing. The consequences are that injuries and unwanted side-effects of healthy activity are becoming major health problems. Prevention is crucial to health gain, both in the short-term (preventing immediate injury), and in the longer term (reducing the risk of recurrence and prolonged periods of impairment). Prevention follows 4 main steps: 1) the sports injury problem must be described in incidence and severity, 2) the etiological risk factors and mechanisms underlying the occurrence of injury are identified, 3) preventive methods that are likely to work can be developed and introduced, and 4) the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of such measures are evaluated.   This book follows these four steps to provide a comprehensive guide to the epidemiology and methodology involved in sports injury research. It includes detailed background on epidemiological methods employed in research on sports injuries, discusses key methodological issues, and teaches the reader to recognize the influence of the employed methodology on interpretations of study results. Theoretical knowledge is integrated with practical examples throughout. The book will be of value to all researchers and professionals, both clinicians and epidemiologists, in the field of sports medicine"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining a research question / Peta White; title: Study designs / James R. Borchers and Thomas Best; title: Basic statistical methods / Jos Twisk; title: Injury definitions / Colin Fuller; title: Research designs for descriptive studies / Jennifer Hootman; title: Statistics used in observational studies / Will G. Hopkins; title: Reviews : using the literature to your advantage / Quinette Louw and Karen Grimmer-Somers; title: The multi-causality of injury : current concepts / Willem Meeuwisse and Brent Hagel; title: Investigating injury risk factors and mechanisms / Tron Krosshaug and Evert Verhagen; title: Statistics in aetiological studies / Ian Shrier and Russell J. Steele; title: The pragmatic approach / Alex Donaldson; title: The behavioural approach / Dorine Collard, Anika Singh, and Evert Verhagen; title: Research designs for evaluation studies / Carolyn Emery; title: Statistics used in effect studies / Andrew Hayen and Caroline F. Finch; title: Cost-effectiveness studies / Judith Bosmans ... [et al.]; title: Implementing studies into real life / Caroline F. Finch.