The Effectiveness of Education Interventions on Coaching Education Students' Concussion Knowledge, Retention, and Attitudes
Author | : Brienna L. Simons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2013 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1032614937 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Effectiveness of Education Interventions on Coaching Education Students' Concussion Knowledge, Retention, and Attitudes written by Brienna L. Simons and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's abstract: Coaches who don’t have access to qualified health care providers need to be well educated on prevention, detection, assessment, and management of sport-related concussion to help decrease the risks associated. Due to the lack of assessment on educational interventions there is no way to determine the validity of the content. Objective: Determine which of three online concussion education interventions was most influential on coaches’ concussion knowledge, retention of knowledge, and their effects on attitudes amongst a sample of coaching education students. Participants: 233 coaching student’s recruited, used 154 for data analysis (71% male, x̅ age = 21.2 ± 1.68 years, 1.18 ± 0.37 years of coaching experience). Interventions: An original questionnaire was administered in a streamline series using Qualtrics: pre-intervention, immediately post intervention, and a follow-up 30 days later. The assessment’s context was created using current concussion questions in the literature that were emphasized in the education interventions: Brain 101: The concussion Playbook (B101), Concussion Wise (CW), and Head-Up: Concussion in Youth Sports (CDC). Results: CW was the most effective intervention at improving overall concussion symptoms (F = 26.79, p