The Athlete Psychological Passport: A smart tool for sport-related concussion in grassroots sport

业余运动对促进健康的生活方式很重要，但参与业余运动也会带来潜在的伤害，包括脑震荡。然而，与精英和职业体育不同，获得标准化教育和身份认证协议的机会有限。由于业余体育运动有最高比例的未报告的脑震荡，由于它具有最高的参与者人数和最脑震荡相比，任何其他水平的运动，有重大问题周围脑震荡检测和护理。该项目旨在确定运动相关脑震荡对认知功能，学习成绩和健康的影响，以及如何使用技术来创建一个基于证据的过程，以帮助检测和预防业余，大学年龄的学生运动员脑震荡的持久症状。一个大的一年级和/或二年级的大学生运动员队列将被招募参加这项为期两年的纵向研究。SSWITCH是该项目的商业合作伙伴。他们创建了索马，这是一个移动的应用程序，在他们的库中已经有70多个认知测试，并同意为这项研究添加评估和问卷。每月，参与者将使用他们的智能手机或平板电脑完成30分钟的“学生运动员脑震荡测试电池”，包括几个认知功能，包括记忆，注意力和决策，心理健康，脑震荡症状和身体活动评估，这是通过索马移动的应用程序创建和管理。在研究的第一年，将联系报告与运动有关的脑震荡的学生运动员，鼓励他们与医生交谈，并要求他们完成半结构化面试。采访将通过主题分析进行转录和分析，以了解运动相关脑震荡对大学生运动员生活的影响，包括但不限于学习成绩和希望继续运动的原因。在第一学年之后，没有经历脑震荡的参与者将被随机分为对照组和认知训练组。认知训练组将使用索马在整个夏天完成各种认知任务，并将使用试点测试来确定认知任务的持续时间，频率和强度。第二学年后，将比较各组关于脑震荡频率及其对认知功能影响的数据，以显示认知训练是否可以减少脑震荡对认知功能的影响。本研究也有一些预期的结果。其中之一是普及教育和推广使用移动的应用程序，如我们的合作伙伴索马，以引导健康的生活方式。另一个是，配置文件，称为我们的“运动员心理护照”，测量学生运动员的认知功能和症状，为每个参与者创建，可以帮助确定他们的个性化“返回学习”和“返回游戏”协议，确定可能需要的学术支持，并全面提高学生运动员的幸福感。

Amateur sport is important in promoting a healthy lifestyle, but participation in it also brings potential for injury, including concussion. However, unlike elite and professional sport, there is limited access to standardized education and identification protocols. Because amateur sport has the highest percentage of unreported concussions, due to it having the highest number of participants and most concussions in comparison to any other level of sport, there is significant issue surrounding concussion detection and care.This project aims to determine the effects of sport-related concussion on cognitive functioning, academic performance, and wellness, and how technology can be used to create an evidence-based process to help detect and prevent lasting symptoms of concussion in amateur, university aged student-athletes. A large cohort of first and/or second year university student-athletes will be recruited to participate in this two-year, longitudinal study. SSWITCH is the commercial partner of this project. They created SOMA, which is a mobile application with 70+ cognitive tests already in their library and have agreed to add assessments and questionnaires into it for this study. Monthly, participants will use their smartphone or tablet to complete a 30-minute "Student Athlete Concussion Test Battery" comprised of several cognitive function, including memory, attention and decision making, psychological well-being, concussion symptom, and physical activity assessments, which is created and administered through the SOMA mobile application. During the first year of the study, student-athletes who report a sport-related concussion will be contacted, encouraged to speak with their doctor, and asked to complete a semi-structured interview. The interview will be transcribed and analysed through thematic analysis to understand the impact sport-related concussion has on the university student-athletes life, including but not limited to, academic performances and reasons for wanting to continue sport. After the first academic year, participants who did not experience a concussion will be randomly split into a control group and a cognitive training group. The cognitive training group will use SOMA to complete various cognitive tasks throughout the summer, and pilot testing will be used to determine duration, frequency, and intensity of the cognitive tasks. After the second academic year, the data from each group regarding frequency of concussion and its impact on cognitive functioning will be compared, showing if cognitive training can reduce the effect of concussion on cognitive function.There are also a few anticipated outcomes of this study. One being the spread of education and promotion of using mobile applications, such as our partner SOMA, to lead healthy lifestyles. Another is that the profile, called our "Athlete Psychological Passport," that measures student-athletes' cognitive function and symptoms, created for each participant, can help determine their individualized "return to learn" and "return to play" protocols, identify academic support that may be needed, and overall improve student-athletes' well-being.