Symptom profile of affirmative responses to a self-report concussion question, United States 2019

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• Alternative Title:
  Brain Inj
• Personal Author:
  Daugherty, Jill ; Sarmiento, Kelly ; Womack, Lindsay S. ; Breiding, Matthew
• Description:
  Information is limited about signs and symptoms experienced by individuals who self-report a concussion within surveys. The objective of this study was to assess the number and types of signs/symptoms adults experienced and whether or not medical attention was reported after sustaining a self-reported concussion in the past year. A sample of 3,624 adults responded to the web-based 2019 FallStyles survey. Respondents were asked if they had sustained a concussion in the past 12 months and if so, which (if any) signs/symptoms they experienced following the injury. The frequency and percentages of symptoms were calculated. Approximately 2.9% of respondents reported a concussion in the past year. Approximately two-thirds of respondents who reported sustaining a recent concussion stated that they experienced two or more signs/symptoms; the remaining one-third reported zero or one symptom. The findings suggest self-report concussion questions need additional improvement, particularly those that capture concussion using a single question, to improve the validity of self-reports.
• Keywords:
  Adult Athletic Injuries Brain Concussion Concussion Humans Injury Prevention Self Report Survey Methodology Surveys And Questionnaires United States
• Source:
  Brain Inj. 35(11):1413-1417
• Pubmed ID:
  34487455
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8678211
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  35
• Issue:
  11
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1778ae857140a25c63676d7efe65cab019a56096c0de45d018da5cece7ffb75b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/112797/cdc_112797_DS1.pdf
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