Authors
Andrea L Roberts, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Frank E Speizer, Ross D Zafonte, Aaron L Baggish, Herman Taylor Jr, Lee M Nadler, Theodore K Courtney, Ann Connor, Rachel Grashow, Alexandra M Stillman, Dean A Marengi, Marc G Weisskopf
Publication date
2019/10
Journal
The American journal of sports medicine
Volume
47
Issue
12
Pages
2871-2880
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Description
Background
Former American football players have a higher prevalence of cognitive impairment than that of the US general population. It remains unknown what aspects of playing football are associated with neuropsychiatric outcomes.
Hypothesis
It was hypothesized that seasons of professional football, playing position, and experience of concussions were associated with cognition-related quality of life (QOL) and indicators of depression and anxiety.
Study Design
Descriptive epidemiology study.
Methods
The authors examined whether seasons of professional football, playing position, and experience of concussions, as measured by self-report of 10 symptoms, were associated with cognition-related QOL and indicators of depression and anxiety in a cross-sectional survey conducted 2015 to 2017. Cognition-related QOL was measured by the short form of the Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders: Applied …
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