Attitudes about cannabis mediate the relationship between cannabis knowledge and use in active adult athletes.

Background: Little is known about how cannabis knowledge and attitudes impact cannabis use behavior.

Objective: To test the knowledge-attitudes-behavior paradigm in active adult athletes.

Design: The Athlete Pain, Exercise, and Cannabis Experience (PEACE) Survey, a cross-sectional survey study, used social media and email blasts to recruit participants and SurveyGizmo to collect data.

Age related differences in cannabis use and subjective effects in a large population-based survey of adult athletes.

Background: There is a paucity of information regarding cannabis use behaviors in adult community-based athletes as most research in athletes has focused on misuse of cannabis in elite, adolescent, university-based athletes. We aimed to determine whether age related differences exist in patterns of cannabis use and subjective effects to cannabis in adult athletes.

Methods: The Athlete PEACE Survey used mainly social media and email blasts to recruit and SurveyGizmo to collect data.

Cannabis use in active athletes: Behaviors related to subjective effects.

Cannabis use has not been well characterized in athletes. Studies primarily examine problematic use or its categorization by anti-doping bodies as a banned substance. Patterns of use, reasons for use, and responses to cannabis consumption have not been studied in a community-based sample of adult athletes.

A matched-cohort study of selected clinical and utilization outcomes for an asthma care support program.

Estimating the economic and clinical impact of asthma disease management programs traditionally has relied on non-experimental designs and employed matching or stratification methods with limited success. Selecting similar comparison subjects is problematic since subjects must be compared across numerous pretreatment factors. In cases where treatment and comparison subjects differ greatly on observed characteristics, conclusions may be particularly sensitive to an incorrectly specified model used for matching.

A matched-cohort study of health services utilization outcomes for a heart failure disease management program.

Chronic disease is the leading cause of illness, disability, and death in the United States, affecting nearly 100 million Americans. Heart failure alone affects nearly 4.9 million Americans, with another 550,000 newly diagnosed cases each year.