Publications by authors named "Douglas Wiebe"

Objective: Concussion symptoms can be clustered into domains and understanding how multiple symptom domains present clinically may guide more accurate interventions. We investigate the associations between concurrent symptom domains and clinical recovery outcomes, as well as the role of sex in these relationships.

Methods: We analysed data from the Ivy League-Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study and included sport-related concussions (SRC) across five academic years 2015-2016/2019-2020 with complete data (n=1160).

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Objective: Describe the factor structure of the 22-symptom Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT), using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for a priori hypothesized symptom domains.

Study Design: Prospective observational study.

Setting/participants: Collegiate student-athletes with concussion.

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  • * Using data from 2017 to October 2022, researchers found that fatal firearm incidents increased notably in low-graded areas, indicating a significant rise in violence following the pandemic.
  • * The findings suggest that historical policies, like those from the Home Owners Loan Corporation, have led to growing racial disparities in firearm violence, emphasizing the need for investment in marginalized communities to mitigate future crises.
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Objectives: Contextual factors that contribute to firearm injuries among children aged 0 to 10 are not well understood.

Methods: A retrospective review of the National Fatality Review-Case Reporting System was conducted for firearm deaths of children aged 0 to 10 from 2004 to 2020. Descriptive analyses characterized child and parent demographics, incident details, firearm characteristics, and firearm use.

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  • - The study emphasizes the impact of sport-related concussions (SRC) on high school students, noting that such injuries can lead to significant absenteeism, which affects their learning and recovery process, necessitating structured return-to-learn protocols.
  • - It aims to evaluate the number of school days missed by high school athletes with SRC and examines how this correlates with the athletes' return to competition status, with a specific focus on differences between genders.
  • - An analysis of over 20,000 SRC cases showed that various factors—including gender, type of sport, and severity of the event—are significantly linked to the number of school days missed, and athletes typically required about 11 days to achieve full medical clearance.
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Importance: Handheld cellphone use while driving is associated with increased motor vehicle crash risk among adolescents.

Objective: To examine the association of handheld cellphone use while driving with kinematic risky driving (KRD) events-hard braking and rapid acceleration-in adolescent drivers.

Design, Setting, Participants: Adolescents aged 16.

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Increasingly, studies use social media to recruit, enroll, and collect data from participants. This introduces a threat to data integrity: efforts to produce fraudulent data to receive participant compensation, e.g.

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Background: As e-scooters have become common modes of transportations in urban environments, riding e-scooters has become a common mechanism of injury. This study examines the relationship between when riders are using these devices (i.e.

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Background: In the 50 years since public health firearm research began, the decades have witnessed several pioneering investigators, followed by NRA backlash and a CDC funding moratorium, then increasing firearm mortality punctuated by mass shootings, and finally an unprecedented release of funding dedicated for research and to support trainees. Motivated by my own efforts to stay productive in firearm research, by the shirtsleeves-to-shirtsleeves cautionary lesson that wealth - for us this a researcher's funding, infrastructure, and capacity - amassed by one generation will soon diminish, and by my worry that we are not adequately dedicated to growing new investigators, I set out to document researcher lineages in this field.

Methods: I created a multigenerational lineage map to find authors using "gun" or "firearm" in the title/abstract as a way to find peer-reviewed publications on firearms as a public health issue.

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Background: Most Americans believe that gun-free zones make locations more vulnerable to violent crimes, particularly active shootings. However, there is no empirical evidence regarding the impact of gun-free zones on protecting locations from violence. The objective of this study was to estimate the association between gun-free zones and active shootings.

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Background: Growing interest has motivated recent studies to examine differences in recovery after sport-related concussion (SRC) by sex. However, heterogeneity in study design, participants, and recovery outcomes has led to mixed findings. Further work is needed to evaluate potential differences by sex and to investigate the role of related characteristics, such as sport contact-level, in recovery timelines.

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Distracted driving is responsible for nearly 1 million crashes each year in the United States alone, and a major source of driver distraction is handheld phone use. We conducted a randomized, controlled trial to compare the effectiveness of interventions designed to create sustained reductions in handheld use while driving (NCT04587609). Participants were 1,653 consenting Progressive® Snapshot® usage-based auto insurance customers ages 18 to 77 who averaged at least 2 min/h of handheld use while driving in the month prior to study invitation.

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Objective: This study aims to characterise the motivations of firearm owners and examine whether firearm ownership motivations and carriage varied by state stand your ground law status.  METHODS: Using a nationally representative survey of US adults in 2023, we asked firearm owners (n=2477) about their firearm motivations and behaviours, including reason(s) for ownership.

Results: Of all firearm owners, 78.

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Importance: Handheld phone use while driving is a major factor in vehicle crashes. Scalable interventions are needed to encourage drivers not to use their phones.

Objective: To test whether interventions involving social comparison feedback and/or financial incentives can reduce drivers' handheld phone use.

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Objective: Epidemiology provides fundamental opportunities to protect student-athlete health. The goal of this study was to describe the epidemiology of sport-related concussion (SRC) across 8 years (2015/2016-2022/2023) and compare boys' and girls' sports for SRC incidence and SRC mechanisms.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study performed using a statewide high school head injury surveillance system of high school student-athletes (n = 2,182,128; boys, n = 1,267,389; girls, n = 914,739).

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  • Paediatric concussions are common, with about 30% of affected youth experiencing long-term symptoms that last over a month, highlighting the need for effective treatment strategies.
  • Early access to specialty care significantly improves recovery for those at risk of ongoing symptoms, but there are inequalities in accessing this care among youth.
  • This study tests a mobile health technology (mHealth) system designed to monitor patients remotely and facilitate connections to specialized care, aiming to reduce the prevalence of long-term concussion symptoms.
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  • Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is often overlooked in civilian women, with existing definitions from the CDC and DOD/VA focusing mainly on athletes and military personnel.
  • This study analyzed electronic health records to compare these definitions and introduced a new, broader definition called the Penn definition to better identify TBI cases in women.
  • The results showed that the Penn definition identified nearly twice as many TBI patients compared to the existing definitions, allowing for more comprehensive research on this condition.
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Background: A concussion is a common adolescent injury that can result in a constellation of symptoms, negatively affecting academic performance, neurobiological development, and quality of life. Mobile health (mHealth) technologies, such as apps for patients to report symptoms or wearables to measure physiological metrics like heart rate, have been shown to be promising in health maintenance. However, there is limited evidence about mHealth engagement in adolescents with a concussion during their recovery course.

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Background: Advancements in linking publicly available census records with vital and administrative records have enabled novel investigations in epidemiology and social history. However, in the absence of unique identifiers, the linkage of the records may be uncertain or only be successful for a subset of the census cohort, resulting in missing data. For survival analysis, differential ascertainment of event times can impact inference on risk associations and median survival.

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Objective: Insights into how symptoms influence self-care can guide patient education and improve symptom control. This study examined symptom characteristics, causal attributions, and contextual factors influencing self-care of adults with arthritis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, or heart failure.

Methods: Adults (n = 81) with a symptomatic chronic illness participated in a longitudinal observational study.

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Introduction: Individuals in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods exhibit increased risk for impaired cognitive function. Whether this association relates to the major dementia-related neuropathologies is unknown.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included 469 autopsy cases from 2011 to 2023.

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Background: Trauma is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children. Many traumatic injuries are preventable and trauma centers play a major role in directing population-level injury prevention strategies. Given the constraint of finite resources, calculating priorities for injury prevention at an institutional level is essential.

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