Table 3 Questionnaire sent to all living people who reported a skydiving incident with personal injury in Sweden during 1999–2003.

1. What was the date of your injury?

2. How did your accident occur?

3. What were your injuries?

4. Where did you receive healthcare?

5. Were you admitted as an inpatient? If so, for how many days?

6. How many medical consultations did you have? Where?

7. Do you have any residual disability or discomfort? If so, of what kind?

8. Have you made changes in work or leisure time activities as a result of the injury? If so, of what kind?

9. Have you stopped skydiving as a result of the injury?

10. Do you have any experiences from your injury event that you would like to convey?

11. Will you grant us permission to, if necessary, read your hospital records?

Initial non‐responders were sent a second copy of the questionnaire and were also contacted by telephone, but in some cases, neither current address nor telephone number could be obtained. Time from injury to questionnaire response was 1 year, 23%; 2 years, 20%; 3 years, 21%; 4 years, 20%; and 5 years, 16%. Translated from Swedish.