One Team: Changing the Culture of Youth Sport With Pregame Safety Huddles

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Concussion, Brain
• Interventions: Behavioral: Pre-game Safety Huddles

• Registration Number: NCT04099329
• Lead Sponsor: Seattle Children's Hospital

Brief Summary

Randomized controlled trial of a behavioral intervention (Pre-Game Safety Huddles) designed to study the impact of huddles on concussion safety in youth sport, primarily regarding intention to report concussive symptoms.

Detailed Description

More than 1 million youth sustain a sport-related concussion (SRC) each year. The middle school age range is particularly concerning because it is a time when children have both a unique susceptibility to brain injury and high participation rates in organized sports with concussion risk, such as soccer and football. There are two avenues to decrease concussion risk: (1) minimizing the number and force of collisions to decrease concussion incidence (primary prevention) and (2) improving concussion identification to decrease morbidity (secondary prevention). The goal of this study is to utilize Pre-Game Safety Huddles to discuss sportsmanship (primary prevention) and concussion reporting (secondary prevention) with a goal of improving concussion safety.

To assess the efficacy of Pre-Game Safety Huddles as a tool for injury prevention, we will conduct a Randomized controlled trial with youth sport teams. We will recruit leagues in the Seattle area (girls' soccer, boys' soccer and football) and randomize them to either intervention or control. Coaches in the intervention group will then be trained to lead Pre-Game Safety Huddles before each game over the course of the season (9-12 weeks). Youth and coaches will be surveyed at three time points and data will be analyzed to determine impact of the intervention on two outcomes: 1) expectations regarding reporting concussive symptoms (CR-E) and 2) expectations regarding engaging in potentially injurious play (IP-E).

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-08-07
• Study Start: 2019-08-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-09-19
• Study First Posted: 2019-09-23
• Primary Completion: 2020-01-01
• Study Completion: 2020-03-01
• Status Verified: 2022-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-01-25
• Last Update Posted: 2022-01-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 500

Inclusion Criteria

• Participating on a team in one of the recruited leagues and willing to complete surveys

Exclusion Criteria

• Not willing to complete surveys

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Pre-game Safety Huddles	Pre-game Safety Huddles	Pre-game safety huddles will occur before each game and athletes and coaches will be surveyed.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change, Expectations regarding concussion reporting (CR-E)	Baseline, 4-6 weeks, 9-12 weeks	Self-report survey of Athlete expectations regarding reporting concussive symptoms

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change, Perceived coach, parent and peer norms regarding concussion reporting (PN-PWCS)	Baseline, 4-6 weeks, 9-12 weeks	Self-report survey, Athlete perception of norms regarding concussion reporting
Change in Perceived coach (TN-C), parent (TN-P) and peer norms (TN-T) regarding sportsmanship	Baseline, 4-6 weeks, 9-12 weeks	Self-report survey, Athlete perception of norms regarding sportsmanship
Change, Youth sport values (YSV)	Baseline, 4-6 weeks, 9-12 weeks	Self-report survey, Athlete values regarding sport participation
Performed behavior, concussion reporting (PB--CR)	9-12 weeks	Self-report survey, Athlete concussion symptoms following potential concussion during season
Self-report of concussion diagnosis	9-12 weeks	Athlete report of concussion diagnosis during the season
Change, Expectations of engaging in potentially injurious play (IP-E)	Baseline, 4-6 weeks, 9-12 weeks	Self-report survey of Athlete rating of expectations of engaging in potentially risky sport behavior
Change, Expectations regarding reporting teammate concussion (bystander reporting) (E-BR)	Baseline, 4-6 weeks, 9-12 weeks	Self-report survey, Athlete intention to report teammate concussive symptoms
Change, Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior in Sport Scale (PABSS)	Baseline, 4-6 weeks, 9-12 weeks	Self-report survey, Standardized measure of sportsmanship
Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM-2) and Feasibility of Intervention Measure (AIM-2, FIM-2)	9-12 weeks	Self-report survey, Standardized measures of acceptability and feasibility

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Sara P Chrisman; 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States