@article{ref1,
title="Anxiety and mood disruption in collegiate athletes acutely following mild traumatic brain injury",
journal="Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)",
year="2024",
author="Zhang, Rachel and Martyna, Michael and Cornwell, Jordan and Teramoto, Masaru and Selfridge, Mollie and Brown, Amanda and Ghajar, Jamshid and Lumba-Brown, Angela",
volume="14",
number="12",
pages="e1276-e1276",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To report the symptom burden of anxiety and mood-related indicators following mTBI in collegiate student-athletes. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study of varsity collegiate athletes. SETTING: University sports medicine at a tertiary care center. PATIENTS: Division I college varsity athletes diagnosed with mTBI at a single institution between 2016 and 2019. INDEPENDENT VARIABLES: Pre- and post-injury. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Comparisons between baseline testing and post-mTBI symptom scale assessments were made to determine changes in scores at the individual and group levels. The primary outcome was the prevalence of post-mTBI symptoms from within 72 h of injury through return to play. Associations with sport, sex, age, and return-to-play time were included. <br><br>RESULTS: Compared to baseline, mood and anxiety symptom scores were significantly higher acutely following mTBI (2.1 ± 3.3 vs. 14.3 ± 12.2; p < 0.001). A family history of migraine was significantly associated with higher mood and anxiety symptom scores (20.0 ± 14.9 with history vs. 13.3 ± 11.3 without history; p = 0.042). Mood and anxiety symptom scores were highly correlated with non-mood and anxiety symptom scores for all athletes, including the subgroup with prolonged symptoms (r = 0.769; p < 0.001). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Symptoms of anxiety or mood disruption are common during the acute period post-injury in varsity college athletes. Risk factors for higher symptom reports immediately following mTBI and for prolonged symptoms (>10 days) included female sex, those with a family history of migraine, and those with an overall higher symptom burden post-injury.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2075-4418",
doi="10.3390/diagnostics14121276",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14121276"
}