Personality Predictors of Time to Return to Play After Sports-Related Concussion: Analysis of Survey Data From an Undergraduate Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to address a gap in concussion literature by investigating the relation between personality and return to play. It is important to know that earlier return to play places individuals at higher risk of sustaining a new concussion after an initial concussion.

Design

Participants were undergraduate students recruited from psychology courses in 2019 who reported medically confirmed sports-related concussion and medically advised return to play (N = 202). Participants completed an online battery in a supervised laboratory setting that included self-report survey measures, concussion history items, and behavioral impulsivity tasks. Kaplan-Meier analysis and Cox proportional hazards models were used to analyze time to return to play after participants' fi

SUBMITTER: Weishaar MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8758520 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature