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Recognizing the Symptoms of Mental Illness following Concussions in the Sports Community: A Need for Improvement
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the awareness of concussion-related symptoms amongst members of the sports community in Canada. METHODS: A cross-sectional national electronic survey was conducted. Youth athletes, parents, coaches and medical professionals across Canada were recruited through mailing lists fr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4633152/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26536016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141699 |
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author | Topolovec-Vranic, Jane Zhang, Stanley Wong, Hatty Lam, Emily Jing, Rowan Russell, Kelly Cusimano, Michael D. |
author_facet | Topolovec-Vranic, Jane Zhang, Stanley Wong, Hatty Lam, Emily Jing, Rowan Russell, Kelly Cusimano, Michael D. |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the awareness of concussion-related symptoms amongst members of the sports community in Canada. METHODS: A cross-sectional national electronic survey was conducted. Youth athletes, parents, coaches and medical professionals across Canada were recruited through mailing lists from sports-related opt-in marketing databases. Participants were asked to identify, from a list of options, the symptoms of a concussion. The proportion of identified symptoms (categorized as physical, cognitive, mental health-related and overall) as well as participant factors associated with symptom recognition were analyzed. RESULTS: The survey elicited 6,937 responses. Most of the respondents (92.1%) completed the English language survey, were male (57.7%), 35–54 years of age (61.7%), with post-secondary education (58.2%), or high reported yearly household income (>$80,000; 53.0%). There were respondents from all provinces and territories with the majority of respondents from Ontario (35.2%) or British Columbia (19.1%). While participants identified most of the physical (mean = 84.2% of symptoms) and cognitive (mean = 91.2% of symptoms), they on average only identified 53.5% of the mental health-related symptoms of concussions. Respondents who were older, with higher education and household income, or resided in the Northwest Territories or Alberta identified significantly more of the mental health-related symptoms listed. INTERPRETATION: While Canadian youth athletes, parents, coaches and medical professionals are able to identify most of the physical and cognitive symptoms associated with concussion, identification of mental health-related symptoms of concussion is still lagging. |
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spelling | pubmed-46331522015-11-13 Recognizing the Symptoms of Mental Illness following Concussions in the Sports Community: A Need for Improvement Topolovec-Vranic, Jane Zhang, Stanley Wong, Hatty Lam, Emily Jing, Rowan Russell, Kelly Cusimano, Michael D. PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the awareness of concussion-related symptoms amongst members of the sports community in Canada. METHODS: A cross-sectional national electronic survey was conducted. Youth athletes, parents, coaches and medical professionals across Canada were recruited through mailing lists from sports-related opt-in marketing databases. Participants were asked to identify, from a list of options, the symptoms of a concussion. The proportion of identified symptoms (categorized as physical, cognitive, mental health-related and overall) as well as participant factors associated with symptom recognition were analyzed. RESULTS: The survey elicited 6,937 responses. Most of the respondents (92.1%) completed the English language survey, were male (57.7%), 35–54 years of age (61.7%), with post-secondary education (58.2%), or high reported yearly household income (>$80,000; 53.0%). There were respondents from all provinces and territories with the majority of respondents from Ontario (35.2%) or British Columbia (19.1%). While participants identified most of the physical (mean = 84.2% of symptoms) and cognitive (mean = 91.2% of symptoms), they on average only identified 53.5% of the mental health-related symptoms of concussions. Respondents who were older, with higher education and household income, or resided in the Northwest Territories or Alberta identified significantly more of the mental health-related symptoms listed. INTERPRETATION: While Canadian youth athletes, parents, coaches and medical professionals are able to identify most of the physical and cognitive symptoms associated with concussion, identification of mental health-related symptoms of concussion is still lagging. Public Library of Science 2015-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4633152/ /pubmed/26536016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141699 Text en © 2015 Topolovec-Vranic et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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 properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Topolovec-Vranic, Jane Zhang, Stanley Wong, Hatty Lam, Emily Jing, Rowan Russell, Kelly Cusimano, Michael D. Recognizing the Symptoms of Mental Illness following Concussions in the Sports Community: A Need for Improvement |
title | Recognizing the Symptoms of Mental Illness following Concussions in the Sports Community: A Need for Improvement |
title_full | Recognizing the Symptoms of Mental Illness following Concussions in the Sports Community: A Need for Improvement |
title_fullStr | Recognizing the Symptoms of Mental Illness following Concussions in the Sports Community: A Need for Improvement |
title_full_unstemmed | Recognizing the Symptoms of Mental Illness following Concussions in the Sports Community: A Need for Improvement |
title_short | Recognizing the Symptoms of Mental Illness following Concussions in the Sports Community: A Need for Improvement |
title_sort | recognizing the symptoms of mental illness following concussions in the sports community: a need for improvement |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4633152/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26536016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141699 |
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