Table 1.
Subject Demographics and Pre-Season Clinical Measures as the Baseline
| Contact control (n = 28) | Concussed (n = 30) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Demographic/measure | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | p valuea |
| Demographics | |||
| Age (years) | 19.52 ± 1.44 | 19.17 ± 1.02 | 0.287 |
| Education (years) | 9.68 ± 1.02 | 9.84 ± 0.87 | 0.503 |
| WTAR standard score | 107.21 ± 14.63 | 106.92 ± 12.86 | 0.932 |
| Clinical assessments | |||
| Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) | 0.54 ± 1.35 | 1.58 ± 2.53b | 0.062 |
| BSI-Soma | 0.21 ± 0.57 | 0.58 ± 1.03b | 0.111 |
| BSI-Anxiety | 0.21 ± 0.69 | 0.35 ± 0.80b | 0.517 |
| BSI-Depression | 0.11 ± 0.315 | 0.65 ± 1.60b | 0.082 |
| Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC) | 26.92 ± 2.17 | 27.07 ± 2.11b | 0.797 |
| Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT) | |||
| Symptom Score | 0.65 ± 0.83 | 1.00 ± 0.88c | 0.597 |
| Symptom Severity Score | 0.78 ± 1.03 | 1.17 ± 1.10c | 0.174 |
| Balance Error Scoring System (BESS) | 14.88 ± 6.13 | 13.28 ± 6.69b | 0.359 |
Bold funds indicate significant different between the contact sport control and concussed group.
a
Two-tailed Student's t-test.
b
n = 26.
c
n = 29.
WTAR, Wechsler Test of Adult Reading; SD, standard deviation.