Citation

Ferraro FR, Cuccolo K, Wise RA. Appl. Neuropsychol. Child 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota , Grand Forks , ND , USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/21622965.2019.1654385

PMID

31476888

Abstract

College students (n = 120) answered 18 yes-no questions that varied the child's gender (male, female), grade (grade school, high school, college), and sport (American football, soccer, hockey). The format of the 18 yes or no questions was "If you had a child in (grade school, high school, college) would you let (him, her) play (football, soccer, hockey)"? Similar to a previous study, a large percentage (78.8%) of the respondents answered yes to the questions about football, indicating that they would permit their children to play football despite the risk of concussion (96% yes for male children, 67% yes for female children). Although the number of respondents who would allow their male child to play soccer (98% for male children, 99% for female children) or hockey (92% for male children, 89% for female children) was similar to the percentage of respondents that would allow their male child to play football, significantly more respondents would allow their female child to play soccer or hockey than football. This result is potentially problematic because soccer and hockey have high rates of concussion, especially for females, which suggests that the respondents may have been unaware of this fact.

Language: en

Keywords

College students; concussion; sports