OBJECTIVE To present recommendations for the prevention, detection, and comprehensive management of disordered eating (DE) in athletes. BACKGROUND Athletes with DE rarely self-report their symptoms. They tend to deny the condition and are often resistant to referral and treatment. Thus, screenings and interventions must be handled skillfully by knowledgeable professionals to obtain desired ou...

BACKGROUND The success of large scale surveys depends on well designed questionnaires and the skills of lay interviewers. Discrepancies in prevalence rates between epidemiological surveys and poor agreement between survey interviewer and clinician diagnostic interviews are giving rise to increasing concern among researchers, public health planners and policy developers. New approaches to inform...

Introduction Many low-income countries have very high levels of youth unemployment. Self-employment provides one path to economic independence for these youths, but be successful, they require both technical and entrepreneurial skills. Most employment interventions research focused on the formal education sector, which has limited understanding role in reducing The informal learning opportuniti...

OBJECTIVES This research was a preliminary effort to determine whether various driving situations seemed to require different driving skills and abilities and to identify the relative demands of specific physical, perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, and operational skills and abilities in different driving situations. METHOD Experienced driver evaluators and trainers estimated the magnitude of...

This communication presents part of an international project focused on the work of trainers from an ergonomics perspective. The objective is to identify in the French vocational training system the various types of job status of trainers and their impact on working conditions and health. In order to explore this issue, we met with 11 trainers, all volunteers, working in the music or human reso...

Background: CrossFit is a large, growing force in the fitness community. Currently, Level 1 and 2 CrossFit certification classes do not include nutrition education. The purpose of this study was to identify sports nutrition knowledge, perceptions, resources, and advice given by Certified CrossFit Trainers. Methods: An online questionnaire that measured these four constructs was placed on a priv...

OBJECTIVE: To introduce the concept of evidence-based medicine (EBM) to athletic trainers. This overview provides information on how EBM can affect the clinical practice of athletic training and enhance the care given to patients. DATA SOURCES: We searched the MEDLINE and CINHAL bibliographic databases using the terms evidence-based medicine and best practice and the online Index to Abstracts o...

Abstract Aims To help build medical capacity in low resource settings. Methods I researched and worked with two organisations, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Mercy Ships. Ships collaboration ASGBI Results MSF is a humanitarian organisation. Although works settings, it not developmental therefore education was part of its brief. completed 2x 2 month missions MSF, Central African Republic Chad. S...

In this study, the directed (deductive) content analysis approach was adopted to explore the components of translator trainers’ competencies through in-depth individual semistructured interviews conducted with 10 expert Iranian translator trainers at different universities around Iran. Theoretical model was the translator trainer profile proposed by The European Master’s in Translation (EMT) Gr...