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Exploring Minor Hockey Players' Knowledge About and Attitudes Toward Concussion: Implications for Prevention
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Concussions in ice hockey are a serious public health concern, however too many athletes fail to recognize or report their symptoms. A survey was developed to assess minor hockey players’ concussion knowledge, attitudes, and reporting behaviour, as little is known from their perspective. Male...
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Fall 2012
School violence is a global concern that has become a particular problem for Canadians, with worries that it is becoming more widespread and violent in nature. School psychologists have been considered to be in an optimal role for addressing the problem of school violence due to their unique...
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Exploration of Institutional Dementia Care: Social Engagement and the Use of Physical Restraints
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Social engagement has been established as an important indicator of quality of life. For individuals with dementia, entering an institution can accelerate their exclusion from the social world of their healthy peers (Kitwood, 1997). This study examined social engagement and physical restraint use...
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An Examination of the Potential Long-Term Psychosocial Effects of Sport-Related Concussion in Adolescent Male Hockey Players
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Purpose: The main objective of this study was to examine whether elite youth male ice hockey players with a medical history of one or more concussion(s) would exhibit more pronounced deficits in their psychosocial functioning than a non-injured control. Methods: The study had a cross-sectional...
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Fall 2015
Concussion can have adverse long term effects in the cognitive and behavioral development of children and adolescents. Research continues to highlight the fact that children and adolescents are more susceptible to concussion and take longer to recover from this injury. At present, there is a...
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Beyond the Physical Wounds: Male Varsity Athletes' Psychological Responses to Hypothetical Sport Concussions
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Following Wiese-Bjnorstal et al.’s (1995) sport injury response model, this dissertation used hypothetical scenarios to examine the relationships between sport concussion severity, post-concussion injury appraisals, and post-concussion depression and anxiety symptoms. Participants included a...
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Psychosocial Risk Factors of Sports Injury Occurrence and Severity among Elite Youth Ice Hockey Players
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Psychological factors have been shown to play a role in the frequency and severity of injury among athletes. The Behaviour Assessment System for Children Second Edition (BASC-II) was utilized to measure sixteen psychological factors and determine whether these factors predicted rate and severity...
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Predicting Concussion Reporting using the Theory of Planned Behaviour and a Stress-Response Framework among Junior University Athletes
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Concussion in sports has become one of the main concerns for the health of athletes (McCrory et al., 2017). In response, preventative initiatives have been put in place to educate the public about concussion management (Mrazik, Dennison, Brooks, Yeates, Babul, & Naidu, 2015). Despite attempts to...
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Spring 2018
Objective: The Post-Concussion Symptom Scale (PCSS) has been used to evaluate impaired sleep, despite not being validated for this purpose. The objective of this study was to examine the concurrent validity of the Post-Concussion Symptom Scale-Child (PCSS-C) sleep items/cluster with a validated...
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Sport-Related Concussion and the Relationship of Psychological Functioning on Prolonged Recoveries
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The purpose of this study is to explore potential risk factors of psychological functioning that contribute to the recovery of sport-related concussions (SRC) in professional and collegiate athletes. The current study used prospective reporting from athletes prior to and within 48 hours of...