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Epidemiology of sports-related concussion in seven US high school and collegiate sports

Overview of attention for article published in Injury Epidemiology, June 2015
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Title
Epidemiology of sports-related concussion in seven US high school and collegiate sports
Published in
Injury Epidemiology, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s40621-015-0045-4
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Stephen W Marshall, Kevin M Guskiewicz, Viswanathan Shankar, Michael McCrea, Robert C Cantu

Abstract

The epidemiology of sports-related concussion is not well-described in the literature. This paper presents a descriptive epidemiology of concussion in seven high school and collegiate sports. We used the data from Concussion Prevention Initiative (CPI), which enrolled 8905 athletes at 210 high schools and 26 colleges in a prospective cohort study of 7 sports (football, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's lacrosse, and men's and women's ice hockey) between 1999 and 2001. Injury risks and injury rates were used to characterize the incidence of concussion, and changes in symptoms over time were described. A total of 375 concussions were observed. The incidence of concussion was highest in football, followed by women's lacrosse, men's lacrosse, men's soccer, and women's soccer (only 10 ice hockey teams were included, too few to quantify incidence). The rate of incident concussion was strongly associated with history of concussion in the previous 24 months (rate ratio = 5.5; 95 %CI: 3.9, 7.8, for 2 or more concussions relative to no previous concussion). The most common symptoms at time of injury were headache (87 %), balance problems/dizziness (77 %), and feeling "in a fog" (62 %). Loss of consciousness and amnesia were present in relatively few cases (9 and 30 %). The most common mechanism of injury was collision with another player. Sports-related concussions present with a diverse range of symptoms and are associated with previous concussion history.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 195 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 34 17%
Student > Bachelor 32 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 10%
Researcher 19 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 8%
Other 28 14%
Unknown 48 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 45 23%
Sports and Recreations 30 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 10%
Neuroscience 9 5%
Psychology 8 4%
Other 24 12%
Unknown 62 31%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 June 2018.
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#2,425,037
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#107
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#28,552
of 241,658 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Injury Epidemiology
#4
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