title: Empowerment among athletes - an e-survey design.
abstract: This study focus on a healthcare system integrating citizens orientation towards a healthy sports active lifestyle in combination with an individual health information, to prevent them from sports injuries and to empower them in an everyday context. Sports give quality of life, but often result in injuries. In this survey population of 1,320 athletes, 90% had sports related injuries and 80% had received medical treatment. An e-survey investigates how the athletes use IT in relation to health and is a descriptive research into investigating specific indicators of individual empowerment.
authors: Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark. bodil@pallesen.net
authors: Bodil
authors: B
authors: Pallesen
authors: Axel
authors: A
authors: Engberg
authors: Anders
authors: A
authors: Barlach
mesh_terms: D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control; D003625:Data Collection; D003718:Denmark; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D011209:Power, Psychological; D013177:Sports