ArticleHealth expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2020
Loss and recovery after concussion: Adolescent patients give voice to their concussion experience.
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- The Incidence of Sports-Related Concussion in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2025Pooled it
- Head Games: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Examining Concussion and Head Impact Incidence Rates, Modifiable Risk Factors, and Prevention Strategies in Youth Tackle Football.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Pooled it
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- Context Matters: Extra-Personal Factors Underlying Concussion Reporting in University Athletes.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Management of Concussion in the Young Athlete.HSS journal : the musculoskeletal journal of Hospital for Special Surgery · 2024Review
- Concussion response and recovery in men and women's rugby union: A reflexive thematic analysis of player interviews.PloS one · 2024Article
- A Scoping Review of Magnetic Resonance Modalities Used in Detection of Persistent Postconcussion Symptoms in Pediatric Populations.Journal of child neurology · 2023Article
- Hard-Headed Decisions: Intrapersonal Factors Underlying Concussion Reporting in University Athletes.Neurotrauma reports · 2023Article
- Loss and recovery after concussion: Adolescent patients give voice to their concussion experience.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundMost concussion studies have focused on the perspectives and expertise of health-care providers and caregivers. Very little qualitative research has been done, engaging the adolescents who have suffered concussion and continue to experience the consequences in their everyday life.
objectiveTo understand the experiences of recovery from the perspective of adolescent patients of concussion and to present the findings through their voices.
methodsTwo semi-structured focus groups and two narrative interviews were conducted with a small group of 7 adolescents. Grounded theory was used to analyse the data.
resultsParticipants experience continuing difficulty 1-5 years after treatment with cognitive, emotional, social and mental well-being. The overriding experience among older adolescents (17-20) is a sense of irreversibility of the impact of concussion in all these areas.
conclusionThere is a significant gap between the medical determination of recovery and what patients understand as recovery. Adolescents do not feel 'recovered' more than a year after they are clinically assessed as 'good to go'. Systematic follow-up and support from a multi-disciplinary health-care team would strengthen youths' coping and resilience.
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