PEERS® Curriculum for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Scoping Review.

Aims: The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®), designed to enhance social skills and relationships for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their caregivers, has primarily been implemented with older children and adolescents ages 11-19, leaving a gap in research on its effectiveness in young children. This scoping review assesses evidence of the effectiveness of the PEERS® program for children with ASD.

Methods: A literature search was conducted, resulting in 97 articles.

The Adolescent Patient Perspective on Activity Limitations After Sport-Related Concussion.

Context: Assessment of sport-related concussion (SRC) has begun to include patient-reported outcome measures. However, understanding of which health limitations are most meaningful to adolescents after SRC is limited.

Objective: To explore patient-perceived activity limitations after SRC and throughout recovery to return to play and mapped according to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) model.

Impact of Teaching Social Determinants of Health on PIF in the Health Professions.

Objective: To address the lack of methods for assessing learning on social determinants of health, particularly from a health systems perspective. Using a conceptual framework of professional identity formation applied across 3 professions (athletic training, occupational therapy, and pharmacy), the study aimed to describe students' level of professional identity when applying knowledge of structural factors' impact on health.

Methods: This study was a deductive content analysis of students' written reflections.

Non-Time-Loss and Time-Loss Injuries in Secondary School Girls' Volleyball Athletes: A Report From the National Athletic Treatment, Injury, and Outcomes Network Surveillance Program.

Context: Volleyball is a popular sport with a risk of injury to the entire body. Insight into non-time-loss (NTL) and time-loss (TL) injuries is needed to inform seasonal injury trends that may lead to appropriate prevention and management strategies. This study provides a descriptive analysis of volleyball injuries among secondary school athletes.

Athletic Administrators' Reporting of Emergency Preparedness Regarding Policies and Procedures in Iowa Secondary Schools.

Context: Secondary schools that offer school-sponsored athletic events should follow best-practice guidelines to provide policies that promote student health and safety.

Objective: To assess emergency preparedness from the perspective of athletic administrators (AAs) in Iowa secondary schools.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Evaluating Multiple Domains of Health in High School Athletes With Sport-Related Concussion.

Context: Concussions are shown to hinder multiple health dimensions, including health-related quality of life (HRQOL), suggesting a need for a whole-person approach to assessment and treatment. Patient-reported outcome measures are one method to gather the patient's perspective regarding their HRQOL.

Objective: To evaluate perceived HRQOL using the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Pediatric-25 subscale in patients throughout concussion recovery.

Implementation Science: Lessons Learned From Evaluating Practice Recommendations for the Care of Patients With Spine Injuries.

Health care providers are encouraged to provide care according to practice recommendations because these suggestions should improve patient care and promote optimal patient outcomes. The goals of these practice recommendations are to improve patient care and promote optimal patient outcomes. However, without integration into clinical practice, the value of practice recommendations in supporting patient care is lost.

Demographic, Parental, and Personal Factors and Youth Athletes' Concussion-Related Knowledge and Beliefs.

Context:: Currently, significant attention is focused on improving care for patients with concussions through legislative mandates that include educational interventions. Few researchers have examined young athletes' concussion knowledge and the factors that may influence their knowledge.

Objective:: To use the socioecological model to examine demographic, parental, and personal factors associated with youth athletes' knowledge of concussion.

Parents' and Child's Concussion History as Predictors of Parental Attitudes and Knowledge of Concussion Recognition and Response.

Background: Parents' knowledge of and attitudes toward concussions are often vital factors that affect care for injured adolescent athletes. It is important to understand the role that parents' personal experiences with concussions play with regard to current concussion knowledge and attitudes so that clinicians may tailor their educational approaches.

Purpose/hypothesis: The purpose of this study was to determine an association between parents' personal experiences and their child's experiences with concussions as well as parental concussion knowledge and attitudes.

Test-Retest Reliability and Practice Effects of the Stability Evaluation Test.

Context: Postural control plays an essential role in concussion evaluation. The Stability Evaluation Test (SET) aims to objectively analyze postural control by measuring sway velocity on the NeuroCom VSR portable force platform (Natus, San Carlos, CA).

Objective: To assess the test-retest reliability and practice effects of the SET protocol.

Football Players' Head-Impact Exposure After Limiting of Full-Contact Practices.

Context: Sporting organizations limit full-contact football practices to reduce concussion risk and based on speculation that repeated head impacts may result in long-term neurodegeneration.

Objective: To directly compare head-impact exposure in high school football players before and after a statewide restriction on full-contact practices.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Head Impact Measurement Devices.

Context: Concussive injuries are at the forefront of sports medicine research. Recently, researchers have used a variety of head- and helmet-based impact-monitoring devices to quantify impacts sustained during contact sport participation. This review provides an up-to-date collection of head accelerometer use at the youth, high school, and collegiate levels.

Concussion recovery time among high school and collegiate athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Concussion diagnosis and management is made through the clinical exam using assessment tools that include self-report symptomatology, postural control, and cognitive evaluations. The specific timing of concussion resolution varies between individuals. However, despite a lack of research in concussion recovery, it is widely accepted that the majority of young adults will recover in 7-10 days, with youth athletes taking longer.

Current and emerging rehabilitation for concussion: a review of the evidence.

Concussion is one of the most hotly debated topics in sports medicine today. Research surrounding concussion has experienced significant growth recently, especially in the areas of incidence, assessment, and recovery. However, there is limited research on the most effective rehabilitation approaches for this injury.

Athletic trainers' familiarity with and perceptions of academic accommodations in secondary school athletes after sport-related concussion.

Context: Sport-related concussion can affect athletes' sport participation and academic success. With the recent emphasis on cognitive rest, student-athletes may benefit from academic accommodations (AA) in the classroom; however, athletic trainers' (ATs') perceived familiarity with, and use of, AA is unknown.

Objective: To assess secondary school ATs' perceived familiarity with, attitudes and beliefs about, and incorporation of AA for student-athletes after sport-related concussion.

Athletic trainers' management practices and referral patterns for adolescent athletes after sport-related concussion.

Background: Athletic trainers (ATs) play an important role in the evaluation, management, and referral of student-athletes after sport-related concussion. Understanding factors that influence ATs' patient care decisions is important to ensure best practices are followed.

Purpose: To identify ATs' current concussion management practices and referral patterns for adolescent student-athletes after sport-related concussion as well as the factors associated with those practices.