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Making Headway for Discussions About Concussions: Experiences of Former High School and Collegiate Student-Athletes

In order to better understand how to identify and treat student-athletes who experience concussions, better insight into reporting behavior of athletes is needed. This study aims to identify information influencing athletes' attitudes toward reporting their concussions and the perceived traject...

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Autores principales: Oddo, Anthony, O'Conor, Ellen, Shore, Sarah, Piraino, Mary, Gibney, Kyla, Tsao, Jack, Stanfill, Ansley Grimes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6624741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31333560
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2019.00698
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author Oddo, Anthony
O'Conor, Ellen
Shore, Sarah
Piraino, Mary
Gibney, Kyla
Tsao, Jack
Stanfill, Ansley Grimes
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description In order to better understand how to identify and treat student-athletes who experience concussions, better insight into reporting behavior of athletes is needed. This study aims to identify information influencing athletes' attitudes toward reporting their concussions and the perceived trajectory of their recovery both athletically and academically. Twenty-five former high school and collegiate athletes who experienced concussions in a wide variety of sports, organizational levels, and time periods gave insight through structured, qualitative interviews. A number of factors regarding education about concussions, proper diagnosis of concussions, and motivational pressures within high school and collegiate athletics were assessed. Eight major themes were identified regarding the participants' experiences with sport-related concussion: optimism bias, invisibility of the injury, diagnostic barriers, desire to play, external support and pressures, uncertainty of long-term prognosis, generational factors, and protection of future athletes. The findings support that underreporting of concussions among those players interviewed is related to misperceived risk, lack of education, and a struggle between internal and external pressures to play through injury. However, those who did seek medical and academic support, often did receive the necessary aid.
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spelling pubmed-66247412019-07-22 Making Headway for Discussions About Concussions: Experiences of Former High School and Collegiate Student-Athletes Oddo, Anthony O'Conor, Ellen Shore, Sarah Piraino, Mary Gibney, Kyla Tsao, Jack Stanfill, Ansley Grimes Front Neurol Neurology In order to better understand how to identify and treat student-athletes who experience concussions, better insight into reporting behavior of athletes is needed. This study aims to identify information influencing athletes' attitudes toward reporting their concussions and the perceived trajectory of their recovery both athletically and academically. Twenty-five former high school and collegiate athletes who experienced concussions in a wide variety of sports, organizational levels, and time periods gave insight through structured, qualitative interviews. A number of factors regarding education about concussions, proper diagnosis of concussions, and motivational pressures within high school and collegiate athletics were assessed. Eight major themes were identified regarding the participants' experiences with sport-related concussion: optimism bias, invisibility of the injury, diagnostic barriers, desire to play, external support and pressures, uncertainty of long-term prognosis, generational factors, and protection of future athletes. The findings support that underreporting of concussions among those players interviewed is related to misperceived risk, lack of education, and a struggle between internal and external pressures to play through injury. However, those who did seek medical and academic support, often did receive the necessary aid. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6624741/ /pubmed/31333560 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2019.00698 Text en Copyright © 2019 Oddo, O'Conor, Shore, Piraino, Gibney, Tsao and Stanfill. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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