One Team: Changing the Culture of Youth Sport With Pregame Safety Huddles

Seattle Children's Healthcare System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Concussion, Brain

Treatments: Behavioral: Pre-game Safety Huddles

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04099329

STUDY00000972

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized controlled trial of a behavioral intervention (Pre-Game Safety Huddles) designed to study the impact of huddles on concussion safety in youth sport, primarily regarding intention to report concussive symptoms.

Full description

More than 1 million youth sustain a sport-related concussion (SRC) each year. The middle school age range is particularly concerning because it is a time when children have both a unique susceptibility to brain injury and high participation rates in organized sports with concussion risk, such as soccer and football. There are two avenues to decrease concussion risk: (1) minimizing the number and force of collisions to decrease concussion incidence (primary prevention) and (2) improving concussion identification to decrease morbidity (secondary prevention). The goal of this study is to utilize Pre-Game Safety Huddles to discuss sportsmanship (primary prevention) and concussion reporting (secondary prevention) with a goal of improving concussion safety.

To assess the efficacy of Pre-Game Safety Huddles as a tool for injury prevention, we will conduct a Randomized controlled trial with youth sport teams. We will recruit leagues in the Seattle area (girls' soccer, boys' soccer and football) and randomize them to either intervention or control. Coaches in the intervention group will then be trained to lead Pre-Game Safety Huddles before each game over the course of the season (9-12 weeks). Youth and coaches will be surveyed at three time points and data will be analyzed to determine impact of the intervention on two outcomes: 1) expectations regarding reporting concussive symptoms (CR-E) and 2) expectations regarding engaging in potentially injurious play (IP-E).

Enrollment: 500 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 14 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participating on a team in one of the recruited leagues and willing to complete surveys

Exclusion criteria

• Not willing to complete surveys

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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500 participants in 2 patient groups

Pre-game Safety Huddles

Experimental group

Description:

Pre-game safety huddles will occur before each game and athletes and coaches will be surveyed.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pre-game Safety Huddles

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention will be delivered by athletes and coaches will be surveyed.