Andrew Mayer, Jessica R McQuaid, Tracey V Wick, Andrew Burke Dodd, Cidney Robertson-Benta, David Stephenson, Harm J van der Horn, Davin Quinn, William A Davis, Anne K Hittson, Robert Sapien, John Phillips, Richard Campbell
Pediatric mild traumatic brain injury (pmTBI) has received increased public attention over the past decade, especially for children who experience persistent post-concussive symptoms (PCS). Common methods for obtaining pediatric PCS rely on both self- and parental report, exhibit moderate test-retest reliability, variable child-parent agreement and may yield high false positives. The current study investigated the impact of age and biological sex on PCS reporting (Post-Concussion Symptom Inventory) in patients with pmTBI (N=286) at retrospective, one week, four months and one-year post-injury time-points, as well as in healthy controls (HC; N=218) at equivalent assessment times...
September 19, 2023: Journal of Neurotrauma