BACKGROUND Since knee complaints are common among athletes and are frequently presented in general practice, it is of interest to investigate the type of knee complaints represented in general practice of athletes in comparison with those of non-athletes. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the differences in type of knee complaints between sport participants, in this study defin...

Preface The SleepNoise (The effect of noise on driving performance and driver sleepiness) project was initiated by Volvo Car Corporation as a response to anecdotal evidence for increased driver drowsiness related to certain interior sound conditions. The project has been performed as a close collaboration between Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) and the Swedish National Road and Transport Research I...

in occupational and environmental health research, individual, group and community research participants have a unique and vested interest in the research findings. the ethical principles of autonomy, non-maleficence and beneficence are helpful in considering the ethical issues in the disclosure of research findings in occupational and environmental health research. researchers need to include ...

'New age' activities, personality variables, symptomatology, and subjective well-being (SWB) among the Forum (F) participants, psychotherapy (P) clients, individuals who are both Forum and psychotherapy (FP) clients, and control (C) participants, who were never involved in either F or P were compared. A group of 64 Israeli men and 76 women (mean age = 38.55 years) completed a demographic questi...

PURPOSE Research on determinants of an individual's pattern of response, considered as a profile across time, for cohort studies with multiple waves is limited. In this prospective population-based pregnancy cohort, we investigated baseline characteristics of participants after partitioning them according to their history of response to different interview waves. METHODS Data are from the Mat...