Dose-Response Effect of Mental Health Diagnoses on Concussion Recovery in Children and Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pre-existing mental health diagnoses may contribute to greater emotional symptom burden and prolonged recovery after concussion.

Hypothesis

Youth with pre-existing mental health diagnoses will have greater emotional symptom burden, greater risk for delayed return to exercise, and more prolonged recovery from concussion than those without those diagnoses.

Study design

Prospective cohort.

Level of evidence

Level 3.

Methods

A prospective registry of youth concussion was examined for differences in emotional symptom burden after injury to develop a predictive risk model for prolonged recovery. The impact of individual and total number of pre-existing mental health diagnoses (0, 1, 2, and 3+) was assessed, and multivariable logistic regression was

SUBMITTER: Master CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10916772 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature