Publications by authors named "Gabriella Norton"
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- The study explores how cognitive, emotional, and social factors affect college students' understanding of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and their health-related decisions.
- Participants, consisting of 458 students, evaluated different injury scenarios to gauge their perception and recommended actions for mTBI.
- Results indicate that students are more inclined to recognize mTBI and seek healthcare when the injury is perceived to happen to a friend rather than themselves, with variations in recommended actions depending on the injury cause.
This mixed method study examined how psychosocial factors from the Theory of Planned Behavior and Reasoned Action (TPB/RA) influence health-seeking behaviors after concussion, expanding from student-athlete TPB/RA research to assess the influence of psychosocial factors within a general college population. Two hundred and forty-four students participated from a large Southeastern public university. A concurrent nested mixed-methods approach involving closed- and constructed- response survey questions.
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