The Effectiveness of Education Interventions on Coaching Education Students’ Concussion Knowledge, Retention, and Attitudes

<p><strong>Context:</strong> 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. <strong>Objective:</strong> 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. <strong>Participants:</strong> 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). <strong>Interventions:</strong> 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). <strong>Results:</strong> CW was the most effective intervention at improving overall concussion symptoms (F = 26.79, p < .001), actual concussion symptoms (F = 12.0, p < .001) and overall concussion knowledge (F = 50.71, p = .04, p = .001). <strong>Discussion:</strong> Overall all three of the interventions improved the participant’s concussion knowledge; however CW was the most influential. From our results we can suggest that there are effective and influential concussion education interventions currently created that can have a positive impact on coaches’ concussion knowledge.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Kinesiology (M.S.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Health and Kinesiology

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• Simons, Brienna L

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jody Langdon
• Trey Burdette

• ETD
• Coaching students
• Concussion
• Education
• Attitudes
• Medicine and Health Sciences

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/888

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1923