The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (2016)

Citation:Buijze GA, Sierevelt IN, van der Heijden BCJM, Dijkgraaf MG, Frings-Dresen MHW (2016) The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial. PLoS ONE 11(9): e0161749. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161749

Editor:Jacobus van Wouwe, TNO, NETHERLANDS

Received:December 17, 2015; Accepted: August 11, 2016; Published: September 15, 2016

Copyright:© 2016 Buijze et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Data Availability:All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.

Funding:The authors received no specific funding for this work. One author [BCJMvdH] was employed by a commercial company [Achmea] but did not receive any support in either time or salary by his employer. All work was performed in the author’s spare time. The commercial company did not have any role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.

Competing interests:Bas C.J.M. van der Heijden was employed by Achmea during the course of the study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.