Shared Decision-Making About Returning to Sport After Recovery From Pediatric Concussion: Clinician Perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Describe how sports medicine clinicians support decision making about sport participation after concussion recovery with adolescent patients and their parents. Specific areas of inquiry related to how clinicians framed the decision, what factors they considered in how they approached the decision process, and how they navigated discordance within families.

Design

Qualitative study.

Setting

Tertiary care sports medicine clinics at 4 children's hospitals in the United States.

Participants

Individual interviews were conducted with 17 clinicians practicing in sports medicine settings.

Interventions

N/A.

Main outcome measures

Semi-structured interviews explored clinician approaches to supporting decision making, with the question guide inform

SUBMITTER: Kroshus-Havril E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11693492 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature