Comparison of Concussion Education Programs

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Concussion, Brain

Treatments: Other: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04492696

40500

Details and patient eligibility

About

Importance: Concussion underreporting leads to delays in diagnosis and treatment, resulting in prolonged recovery. Athletes' report of concussion symptoms is therefore an important component of risk reduction. Numerous educational interventions to improve concussion knowledge and reporting exist.

Objective: Evaluate the comparative efficacy of three concussion education programs in improving concussion-reporting intention.

Design: Randomized clinical trial conducted from August 2018 to October 2018, with assessment before, immediately after, and one-month after educational intervention.

Enrollment: 118 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 14 to 19 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion:

• Athletes from three high school football teams in California.
• In attendance for practice on both study dates
• Provided signed assent and parental consent.

Exclusion:

• Did not complete more than 50% of the questionnaire.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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118 participants in 3 patient groups

Crashcourse

Active Comparator group

Description:

CC uses an approach to providing concussion education informed by user-centered formative design research studies. The program features an interactive "choose your own adventure" approach to navigate the learner through the content, and is guided by near-peer Division I collegiate football athletes

Treatment:

Other: Education

CDC Video

Active Comparator group

Description:

CDC-Vi is an online learning module developed by the CDC and the National Federation of State High School Associations Learning Center. Learners progress through the curriculum sequentially completing each unit before proceeding to the next. The primary narrator of CDC-Vi is Dr. Mick Koester, Chair of the NFHS Sports Medicine Advisory Committee

Treatment:

Other: Education

CDC Written

Active Comparator group

Description:

CDC-Wr consists of educational PDFs available for download from the CDC website, as part of the CDC's "Heads Up" brain injury awareness initiative. The PDFs used for the CDC-Wr condition were specific to high school athlete concussion education

Treatment:

Other: Education