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Social norms theory and concussion education.
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- Factors Affecting Sport-Related Concussion Non-Disclosure in Women's Rugby-A Multi-Country Qualitative Analysis.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2024Article
- Water Treatment Practices and Misperceived Social Norms among Women Living with Young Children in Rural Uganda.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Stakeholder-Engaged Development of a Theory-Driven, Feasible, and Acceptable Approach to Concussion Education.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2024Article
- Factors and expectations influencing concussion disclosure within NCAA Division I athletes: A mixed methodological approach.Journal of sport and health science · 2023Article
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- Developing and evaluating a peer-based mental health literacy intervention with adolescent athletes.PloS one · 2022Article
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- A Latent Profile Analysis to Categorize and Describe Athletes Based on Factors Related to Concussion Disclosure.Journal of athletic training · 2021Article
- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention'sHealth education journal · 2020Article
- Social norms, misperceptions, and mosquito net use: a population-based, cross-sectional study in rural Uganda.Malaria journal · 2019Article
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- Improving Concussion-Reporting Behavior in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Players: Evidence for the Applicability of the Socioecological Model for Athletic Trainers.Journal of athletic training · 2019Article
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Abstract
Secondary prevention of harm from sport-related concussion is contingent on immediate removal from play post-injury. To-date, educational efforts to reduce the prevalent risk behavior of continued play while symptomatic have been largely ineffective. Social norms theory may hold promise as a foundation for more effective concussion education aimed at increasing concussion reporting. The primary objective of this study was to assess whether perceived team concussion reporting norms would be less supportive of an individual's safe concussion symptom reporting behavior than objective team norms. Participants were 328 male and female US collegiate athletes. Written surveys were completed in person during the spring of 2014. Among both male and female athletes, team concussion reporting norms were significantly misperceived, with athletes tending to think that they themselves have safer attitudes about concussion reporting than their teammates. Perceived norms were associated with symptom reporting intention, independent of the team's objective reporting norm. A social norms approach to concussion education, in which misperceived group norms are corrected and shifted in the direction of safety, is an important avenue for program development and evaluation research aimed at the secondary prevention of harm from concussion. Implications for the design of this type of educational programming are discussed.
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