TY - JOUR
T1 - Discrepancies in child and parent reporting of concussion symptoms
AU - Liu, Ruikang
AU - Hicks, Steven D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Steven Hicks serves as a paid consultant and scientific advisory board member for Quadrant Biosciences, Inc. He is named as a co-inventor on intellectual property involving the use of ribonucleic acid technology for concussion prognosis. These conflicts of interest are unrelated to the authorship, and/or publication of this article. Ruikang Liu receives no financial benefits from any organizations and has no potential conflicts of interest with respect to this research. This study was funded by the Children’s Miracle Network. Dr. Hicks’ effort was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant KL2 TR002015 and Grant UL1 TR002014. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
Funding Information:
This study was funded by the Children's Miracle Network, the Gerber Foundation [ID#5295], and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences [KL2 TR002015, UL1 TR002014]. We thank Andrea Loeffert DO, Robert Olympia MD, and Harry Bramley DO for assistance with participant identification. We thank Jennifer Stokes, Jeremiah Johnson, and Molly Carney for assistance with data collection, and Jessica Bieler for aiding in study design.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Objective: To assess discrepancies between child and parent symptom reports following concussion. Methods: Prospective cohort study involving 61 patients, age 7–21 years, diagnosed with a concussion within the previous 14 days. Children/parents completed the Child SCAT-3 symptom inventory at enrollment and 4 weeks post-injury. A within-subjects t-test was used to compare differences in child/parent response for each of 20 individual symptoms, 4 symptom domains, and total symptom severity. Pearson correlations were used to measure agreement between child/parent responses. A repeated measures analysis of variance assessed the effect of time on child/parent symptom discrepancy. Results: At enrollment, children reported higher symptom severity for ‘distracted easily’ (adj. p = .015) and ‘confused’ (adj. p = .015). There was moderate-to-high (r > 0.3) agreement between children and parents for more individual symptoms at enrollment (18/20) than at 4 weeks post-injury (14/20). Age had no effect (p > .05) on the discrepancy between child/parent reports. Conclusions: Although there was moderate-to-strong agreement between child/parent reports of concussion symptoms, discrepancies in individual cognitive symptom reports exist, in both children and adolescents. Therefore, collection of parent scales may provide useful information when tracking cognitive symptoms in adolescent patients, who may under-report or under-recognize cognitive deficits.
AB - Objective: To assess discrepancies between child and parent symptom reports following concussion. Methods: Prospective cohort study involving 61 patients, age 7–21 years, diagnosed with a concussion within the previous 14 days. Children/parents completed the Child SCAT-3 symptom inventory at enrollment and 4 weeks post-injury. A within-subjects t-test was used to compare differences in child/parent response for each of 20 individual symptoms, 4 symptom domains, and total symptom severity. Pearson correlations were used to measure agreement between child/parent responses. A repeated measures analysis of variance assessed the effect of time on child/parent symptom discrepancy. Results: At enrollment, children reported higher symptom severity for ‘distracted easily’ (adj. p = .015) and ‘confused’ (adj. p = .015). There was moderate-to-high (r > 0.3) agreement between children and parents for more individual symptoms at enrollment (18/20) than at 4 weeks post-injury (14/20). Age had no effect (p > .05) on the discrepancy between child/parent reports. Conclusions: Although there was moderate-to-strong agreement between child/parent reports of concussion symptoms, discrepancies in individual cognitive symptom reports exist, in both children and adolescents. Therefore, collection of parent scales may provide useful information when tracking cognitive symptoms in adolescent patients, who may under-report or under-recognize cognitive deficits.
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U2 - 10.1080/02699052.2021.1894483
DO - 10.1080/02699052.2021.1894483
M3 - Article
C2 - 33646888
AN - SCOPUS:85101916573
VL - 35
SP - 675
EP - 681
JO - Brain Injury
JF - Brain Injury
SN - 0269-9052
IS - 6
ER -