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To evaluate the agreement between the BRAIN-Q assessment tool and existing questionnaires, and to examine its reproducibility against a telephone-administered format.

October 19, 2021Epidemiology and HealthOpen Access

The BRAIN-Q, a tool for assessing self-reported sport-related concussions for epidemiological studies

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LJLaura JamesQueen Mary University of London MDMadeleine DaviesEnglish Institute of Sport SMSaba MianUniversity of London

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Validation study reports high agreement and strong reproducibility for the BRAIN-Q tool in rugby athletes, indicating its utility for retrospective epidemiological research.

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To evaluate the agreement between the BRAIN-Q assessment tool and existing questionnaires, and to examine its reproducibility against a telephone-administered format.
Structured the BRAIN-Q into a three-stage, in-person interview comprising concussion definition, visual life-event timeline mapping, and detailed event characterization.
Assessed agreement against a broader self-administered musculoskeletal questionnaire in N=101 participants, and tested reproducibility via telephone re-assessment (tBRAIN-Q) in N=9 participants.
Agreement between the BRAIN-Q and the musculoskeletal questionnaire was 86.7% (κ=0.6) for rugby-related concussions.
Agreement for rugby-related concussions accompanied by loss of consciousness was 82.0% (κ=0.6).
Telephone-based re-assessment with the tBRAIN-Q demonstrated good reproducibility compared to the in-person BRAIN-Q interview.

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James et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa3bdb9e0a56e090ff43155 https://doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2021086

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Validation study reports high agreement and strong reproducibility for the BRAIN-Q tool in rugby athletes, indicating its utility for retrospective epidemiological research.

The BRAIN-Q, a tool for assessing self-reported sport-related concussions for epidemiological studies

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The BRAIN-Q, a tool for assessing self-reported sport-related concussions for epidemiological studies

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