Sports injury research
By: edited by Evert Verhagen, Willem van Mechelen.
Contributors: Van Mechelen, Willem.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199561629
Subjects: Sports injuries -- Research; Athletic Injuries -- epidemiology; Athletic Injuries -- etiology; Athletic Injuries -- prevention & control; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Research -- methods
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: Machine generated contents note:; title: Part 1: Key issues in epidemiology and methodology 1. Defining a research question 2. Study designs 3. Basic statistical methods Part 2: Defining the injury problem 4. Injury definitions 5. Research designs for descriptive studies 6. Statistics used in descriptive studies 7. Reviews - using the literature to your advantage Part 3: Establishing injury aetiology 8. The multi-causality of injury - current concepts 9. Investigating injury risk factors and mechanisms 10. Statistics in aetiological studies Part 4: Development of preventive measures 11. The pragmatic approach 12. The behavioural approach Part 5: Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of preventive measures 13. Research designs for evaluation studies 14. Statistics used in effect studies 15. Cost-effectiveness studies 16. Implementing studies into real life.