Abstract

This cross sectional investigation measured the agreement between parent report of their 8–14 year old child’s sport-related concussion (SRC) history and their child’s self-report of their own SRC history. Parent–child dyads (n = 405) within a youth contact sports (e.g., football, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer) setting participated in the study. Parents (6.2%) and 8.6% of children self-reported a history of at least one diagnosed SRC. We observed substantial agreement between the number of parent-reported and child self-reported SRCs (κ = 0.613, p ≤ .001). Partial agreement regarding the number of SRCs reported by both groups was also substantial (weighted κ = 0.693, p ≤ .001). Removing dyads where neither the parent nor the child reported a diagnosed SRC, sensitivity analyses revealed only fair agreement in parent–child SRC recall. These results indicate that parents and youth athletes overall accounts of their diagnosed SRC history correspond. However determining specifics (e.g., total concussion counts) may benefit from concurrent parent reports, or documented events in medical histories.

摘要

这项横断面调查测量了家长报告的 8-14 岁孩子运动相关脑震荡 (SRC) 病史与孩子自我报告的 SRC 病史之间的一致性。青少年接触运动（例如足球、冰球、长曲棍球、足球）环境中的亲子二人组（n  = 405）参与了这项研究。父母 (6.2%) 和 8.6% 的儿童自我报告至少有一次诊断为 SRC 的病史。我们观察到家长报告的 SRC 数量与儿童自我报告的 SRC 数量基本一致 ( κ  = 0.613, p  ≤ .001)。两组报告的 SRC 数量也部分一致（加权κ  = 0.693，p ≤ .001)。除去父母和孩子都没有报告诊断的 SRC 的二元组，敏感性分析显示亲子 SRC 回忆只有相当的一致性。这些结果表明，父母和青少年运动员对其诊断出的 SRC 病史的总体描述是一致的。然而，确定细节（例如，脑震荡总数）可能会受益于同时发生的家长报告或病史中记录的事件。