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Relationship Between Concussion Symptom Clusters And Return-To-Play Time In College Athletes With Sports-Related Concussions: 2009-2010 To 2013-2014 Disc, Adrian Joseph Boltz
Relationship Between Concussion Symptom Clusters And Return-To-Play Time In College Athletes With Sports-Related Concussions: 2009-2010 To 2013-2014 Disc, Adrian Joseph Boltz
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Objectives To examine the relationship between Concussion Symptom Clusters (CSCs) and return-to-play time using a representative sample of U.S. college athletes with sports-related concussions.
Background Recent evidence regarding concussion symptoms have been observed to be an important element of concussion severity, and potentially a predictor of return-to-play time. However, there is a paucity of data examining the associations between Concussion Symptom Clusters (CSCs) and return-to-play time in the U.S. college athlete population.
Methods Data from the 2009-2010 to 2013-2014 academic years (n=1670) were obtained from the Datalys Center for Sports Injury and Prevention Inc. database. Exploratory factor analytic methods were …