According to a new study, college football players may underestimate their risk of injury and concussion.
The study was published today in JAMA Network Open.
Christine Baugh, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and member of the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities, is the corresponding author of the article, “Accuracy of US College Football Players’ Estimates of Their Risk of Concussion or Injury.”
Baugh and co-authors report on survey results of 296 college football players from four teams in the Power 5 conferences of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Athletes were surveyed in 2017. The researchers found that between 43 per cent and 91 per cent of respondents underestimated their risk of injury and between 42 per cent and 63 per cent underestimated their risk of concussion.
To measure the accuracy of football players’ risk estimations, the researchers modelled individual athletes’…