Maria Girbig

TL;DR: Interventions with technical patient handling aids appear to prevent musculoskeletal complaints, but the certainty of the evidence according to GRADE approach ranged from low to very low.

TL;DR: There is an extensive and diverse body of evidence around health impacts of wind turbines in residential settings, showing particularly noise consequences concerning increased noise annoyance with its complex pathways; no relationship between wind turbine noise and stress effects and biophysiological variables of sleep; and heterogeneous findings concerning sleep disturbance, quality of life, as well as mental health problems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically searched three databases: Medline, Embase, and PsychInfo (until October 2020), and performed a grey literature search (until February 2021) to identify 46 suitable articles from 24 quantitative and 11 qualitative studies, 6 systematic reviews, 3 study protocols and 1 intervention.

TL;DR: There is no convincing evidence (from low-quality studies) for the preventability of musculoskeletal complaints and diseases by the use of small aids, and robust, high-quality intervention studies are necessary to clarify the clinical efficacy of small aid in healthcare work.

TL;DR: The subjective data generated by both groups (focus group discussion and interviews) were comparable and consistent with the current state of research, and provide new insight regarding work-related exposures and diseases of physical therapists working in Germany.