Abstract

BRINGING IMPACT HOME: REMOTE VERSUS TRADITIONAL ADMINISTRATION FOR COLLEGIATE ATHLETES

Background: At the same time as COVID-19 close down our as soon as-perceived “regular” societal function, college athletics have been forced to change how they done concussion baseline screening for his or her student-athletes. The on the spot placed up-concussion evaluation and cognitive test (effect) is a prominent evaluation device used amongst college athletic departments for identifying cognitive baseline functioning of collegiate athletes. The contemporary has a look at aimed to evaluate environmental and supervisory effects of neurocognitive baseline performance and standard symptom opinions among student-athletes who took the impact baseline assessment in a scientific setting or a far off surroundings. Results: The four univariate ANCOVAs for verbal memory (p=0.787), visual memory (p=0.917), visual motor speed (p=0.261), and impulse control (p=0.783) were not significantly different between groups. Additionally, the two Quade ANCOVAs for reaction time (p=0.815) and total symptom score (p=0.886) were not significantly different. Conclusion: The initial findings offer evidence that collegiate athletes can successfully complete their baseline ImPACT assessments in a remote, unsupervised setting without negatively affecting their performance.

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