Calling Injury Timeouts for the Medical Evaluation of Concussion: Determinants of Collegiate Football Officials' Behavior.

ABSTRACT:

Context

  Sports officials can play an important role in concussion safety by calling injury timeouts so that athletic trainers can evaluate athletes with possible concussions. Understanding the determinants of whether officials call an injury timeout when they suspect a concussion has important implications for the design of interventions to better support officials in this role.

Objective

  To assess the knowledge of US collegiate football officials about concussion symptoms and to determine the associations between knowledge, perceived injunctive norms, and self-efficacy in calling injury timeouts for suspected concussions.

Design

  Cross-sectional study.

Setting

  Electronic survey.

Patients or other participants

  Of the 3074 US collegiate football

SUBMITTER: Kroshus E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5737040 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature