Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
What Is in a Name? Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Collegiate Athletes With and Without a History of Concussion. |
| Authors: |
Dunbar, Hilary S.1, Donahue, Catherine C.2, Vela, Luzita3, Freeman, Jason4, Resch, Jacob E.1 Jer6x@virginia.edu |
| Source: |
Journal of Sport Rehabilitation. Mar2025, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p317-327. 11p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*CROSS-sectional method, *SCALE analysis (Psychology), *SOCIAL justice, *T-test (Statistics), *CENTER for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, *ANXIETY, *ANALYSIS of covariance, *CHI-squared test, *DESCRIPTIVE statistics, *DECEPTION, *BRAIN injuries, *COMPARATIVE studies, *DATA analysis software, *PSYCHOLOGICAL tests, *MENTAL depression, *COLLEGE athletes, *PSYCHOSOCIAL factors, *COVID-19 pandemic, *SOCIAL participation |
| Abstract: |
Context: Athletes with a history of concussion (CON) have been demonstrated to have heightened levels of anxiety and depression that may continue well beyond the resolution of concussion symptoms. The global events of 2020 resulted in elevated levels of anxiety and depression in the general population, which may have unequally presented in collegiate athletes with (CON) than those without a history of concussion (NoCON). Using a deception design, our survey-based study compared levels of anxiety and depression in CON and NoCON collegiate athletes in response to the pandemic and social injustices. We hypothesized that the CON group would have significantly elevated anxiety and depression as compared to the NoCON group in response to events of 2020. Design and Methods: Collegiate athletes (N = 106) during the academic 2020–2021 academic year were divided into CON and NoCON groups based on their preinjury (baseline) concussion assessment. Participants completed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SSRS), Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-7 (GAD-7) via an electronic survey pertaining to the events of 2020. The term "concussion" was not used in any study materials which was the basis for our deception-based design. An analysis of covariance was used to compare group CES-D and GAD-7 outcome scores while controlling for the SSRS outcome score. Results: Our survey response rate was 14.2% (48/337 [77.1% female]) and 10.1% (58/580 [67.2% female]), for the NoCON and CON groups, respectively. The NoCON group had significantly (F1 = 5.82, P =.018, η p 2 =.06) higher anxiety (8.3 [5.89]) as compared to the CON group (5.5 [2.85]). The NoCON group also had significantly (F1 = 13.7, P <.001, η p 2 =.12) higher levels of depression (21.0 [12.52]) as compared to the CON group (16.07 [9.10]). Discussion: Our deception-based study revealed NoCON participants had elevated and clinically relevant mood states as compared to CON participants in response to the events of 2020. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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