Table 3.

Responses to question ‘How can you get a concussion?’

Code	n (%)	Examples (age, sex)
Falling	11, (55.0)	‘If you are doing sport and they trip and fall’—(8, F) ‘Falling down on like gravel’ ‘Because they fell down too hard’—(6, F) ‘Or if for some reason there was foul or someone tripped them and they fell’—(6, F)
Hit/impact to head	14, (70.0)	‘Getting kicked in the head by a soccer ball’—(7, M) ‘If it’s hailing, they’re going to be hit by ice’—(7, M) ‘During hockey the puck could hit you’—(8, F) ‘A brick falls off a building, or you get hit with a huge hailstone’—(9, M) ‘If someone threw a ball and it hit them in the head’—(6, F)
Fighting/aggression	3, 1 (5.0)	‘Getting punched in the face too hard’—(7, M) ‘You could get tripped’—(7, M) ‘Someone on their team or the other team tries to injure them’ —(7, M)
Not following the rules	2, (10.0)	‘If they’re like fooling around or like horse playing.’—(8, F) ‘Maybe say they were running in the house and they fell’—(8, M)
Not playing attention	3, (15.0)	‘Because they’re not paying attention—(7, M) ‘You didn’t know that the pole was right there and you smash your head into the pole’—(8, M) ‘If you’re not looking where you are going, and you whack your head into a light pole’—(8 M)
Equipment failure	2, (15.0)	‘At sports, you could be tackled and your helmet could fall off’—(7, M) ‘The golf club could swing back and hit you on the head’—(8, F)
Other	1, (5.0)	‘Someone shouting too loud or shouting too much’—(7, M)