TY - JOUR
PY - 2023//
TI - Investigating the relationship between the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) and screening measures of anxiety, depression, and emotional symptoms in adolescents with concussion
JO - Archives of clinical neuropsychology
A1 - Shurtz, Logan
A1 - Bunt, Stephen C.
A1 - Chowdhury, Sebastian K.
A1 - Didehbani, Nyaz
A1 - Stokes, Matthew
A1 - Miller, Shane M.
A1 - Bell, Kathleen R.
A1 - Cullum, C. Munro
SP - ePub
EP - ePub
VL - ePub
IS - ePub
N2 - OBJECTIVE: Resilience has been found to be a factor in concussion recovery, and the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) has been validated as a measure of resilience in adults. Investigation of the BRS in adolescents with concussion and its relationship with current measures of anxiety, depression, and emotional symptoms may prove beneficial in further understanding emotional response to concussions in adolescents.
METHOD: Participants aged 12-17 who sustained a concussion (n = 1168) were evaluated within 30 days of injury at a North Texas Concussion Registry (ConTex) clinic. Participants completed the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), the General Anxiety Disorder 7 scale (GAD-7), the Patient Health Questionnaire depression scale (PHQ-8), and the emotional cluster (feeling irritable, sad, nervous, and more emotional) of the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 5th Edition Symptom Evaluation (SCAT5) at initial visit. Pearson's correlation coefficient (r) was used to determine the relationship between scores on these four measures.
RESULTS: Pearson correlations between BRS scores and scores from the other measures were modest but statistically significant: GAD-7 (r = -0.392, p < 0.001), PHQ-8 (r = -0.321, p < 0.001), and the emotional cluster of the SCAT5 (r = -0.301, p < 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: Comparison of BRS score with GAD-7, PHQ-8, and the emotional cluster of the SCAT5 indicates that resilience may exhibit a modest inverse correlation with screening measures of anxiety, depression, and emotional symptoms, and thus a discrete factor for use in evaluating initial emotional response to concussion in adolescents.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0887-6177 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acad067.180 ID - ref1 ER -