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Qualitative study of barriers to concussive symptom reporting in high school athletics.

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There are several barriers to concussive symptom reporting in high school athletics, and athlete concussion knowledge does not seem to be a barrier, but coach approachability may be an issue.
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This article is published in Journal of Adolescent Health.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 263 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Athletes & Concussion.

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Sports- and Recreation-Related Concussions in US Youth

TL;DR: This study provides the most accurate and precise estimate to date of the number of concussions among US children annually, and suggests providers in all health care settings need to be trained in concussion care.
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Concussion under-reporting and pressure from coaches, teammates, fans, and parents.

TL;DR: The present study quantifies the pressure that athletes experience to continue playing after a head impact--from coaches, teammates, parents, and fans--and assesses how this pressure, both independently and as a system, is related to future concussion reporting intention.
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Sport-Related Concussion in Children and Adolescents

TL;DR: Education is provided on the current state of sport-related concussion knowledge, diagnosis, and management in children and adolescents.
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Recovery of Cerebral Blood Flow Following Sports-Related Concussion

TL;DR: These results provide the first prospective evidence of reduced CBF in human concussion and subsequent recovery and show real-world validity for predicting outcome following concussion.
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Disclosure and non-disclosure of concussion and concussion symptoms in athletes: Review and application of the socio-ecological framework

TL;DR: Research gaps exist concerning factors influencing athletes’ disclosure of sports-related concussions and concussion symptoms, and researchers have focused on intra-personal and inter-personal levels, placing less emphasis on the environment and policy levels.
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Using thematic analysis in psychology

TL;DR: Thematic analysis is a poorly demarcated, rarely acknowledged, yet widely used qualitative analytic method within psychology as mentioned in this paper, and it offers an accessible and theoretically flexible approach to analysing qualitative data.
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The theory of planned behavior

TL;DR: Ajzen, 1985, 1987, this article reviewed the theory of planned behavior and some unresolved issues and concluded that the theory is well supported by empirical evidence and that intention to perform behaviors of different kinds can be predicted with high accuracy from attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control; and these intentions, together with perceptions of behavioral control, account for considerable variance in actual behavior.
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Unreported concussion in high school football players: implications for prevention.

TL;DR: These findings reflect a higher prevalence of concussion in high school football players than previously reported in the literature and future prevention initiatives should focus on education to improve athlete awareness of the signs of concussion and potential risks of unreported injury.
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Epidemiology of Concussions Among United States High School Athletes in 20 Sports

TL;DR: Although interest in sports-related concussions is usually focused on full-contact sports like football and ice hockey, concussions occur across a wide variety of high school sports and rates vary by sport, gender, and type of exposure.
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Second-impact syndrome.

TL;DR: Second impact syndrome (SIS) occurs when an athlete who has sustained an initial head injury, most often a concussion, sustains a second head injury before symptoms associated with the first have fully cleared.
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