Caccese, Jaclyn B. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2329-3603
Master, Christina L.
Buckley, Thomas A.
Chrisman, Sara P. D.
Clugston, James R.
Eckner, James T.
Ermer, Elsa
Harcum, Stacey
Hunt, Tamerah N.
Jain, Divya
Kelly, Louise A.
Langford, T. Dianne
Lempke, Landon B.
McDevitt, Jane
Memmini, Allyssa K.
Mozel, Anne E.
Perkins, Susan M.
Putukian, Margot
Roby, Patricia R.
Susmarski, Adam
Broglio, Steven P.
McAllister, Thomas W.
McCrea, Michael
Pasquina, Paul F.
Esopenko, Carrie
Hoy, April
Ortega, Justus D.
Port, Nicholas
O’Donnell, Patrick G.
D’Lauro, Christopher
Cameron, Kenneth L.
Goldman, Joshua T.
Benjamin, Holly J.
Kaminski, Thomas W.
Schmidt, Julianne
Collins, Michael
Bazarian, Jeffrey J.
Duma, Stefan
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Funding for this research was provided by:
National Collegiate Athletic Association
U.S. Department of Defense
Article History
Accepted: 6 December 2023
First Online: 22 December 2023
Declarations
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: Data collection and sharing for this project was conducted with support from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Department of Defense (DOD). The US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, 820 Chandler Street, Fort Detrick MD 21702-5014, USA is the awarding and administering acquisition office. This work was supported by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, through the Combat Casualty Care Research Program, endorsed by the Department of Defense, through the Joint Program Committee 6/Combat Casualty Care Research Program—Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Program under Award No. W81XWH1420151. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Department of Defense.
: James R. Clugston receives research support from the National Football League. Margot Putukian is the Chief Medical Officer for Major League Soccer, Senior Advisor National Football League Head, Neck & Spine Committee, Football Association Research Task Force, Concussion in Sport Group Expert Group, and the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment Scientific Advisory Committee. Steven P. Broglio has current or past research funding from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Defense—USA Medical Research Acquisition Activity, NCAA, National Athletic Trainers’ Association Foundation, National Football League, Under Armour, GE, Simbex, and ElmindA. He has consulted for US Soccer, US Cycling, University of Calgary SHRed Concussions external advisory board, and medico-legal litigation. He is a co-author of “Biomechanics of Injury (3rd edition)” and has a patent on “Brain Metabolism Monitoring Through CCO Measurements Using All-Fiber-Integrated Super-Continuum Source” (U.S. 11,529,091 B2). Thomas W. McAllister receives grant support for concussion research studies from the NCAA, the US DOD, and the National Institutes of Health. He also receives royalties for a traumatic brain injury textbook from American Psychiatric Association Publishing, Inc. Michael McCrea receives research funding to the Medical College of Wisconsin from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Veterans Affairs, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DOD, NCAA, National Football League, and Abbott Laboratories. He receives book royalties from Oxford University Press. He serves as a clinical consultant to Milwaukee Bucks, Milwaukee Brewers, and Green Bay Packers, and is Co-Director of the NFL Neuropsychology Consultants without compensation. He serves as a consultant for Neurotrauma Sciences, Inc.
: The local institutional review board at each of the performance sites and the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Human Research Protection Office reviewed and approved all study procedures.
: Participants provided written informed consent prior to participation.
: See Consent to participate.
: JBC designed and conceptualized the secondary analyses, analyzed the data, and drafted and revised the manuscript for intellectual content. CLM led the CARE sex differences working group, designed and conceptualized these secondary analyses, and revised the manuscript for intellectual content. TAB, SPDC, JRC, JTE, EE, SH, TNH, DJ, LAK, TDL, LBL, JMc, AKM AEM, SMP, MP, PRR, and AS designed and conceptualized the secondary analyses and revised the manuscript for intellectual content. SPB, TWMc, MMc, and PFP designed and conceptualized the overall CARE Consortium study and revised the manuscript for intellectual content. CE designed and conceptualized the secondary analyses, and drafted and revised the manuscript for intellectual content. All CARE Consortium Investigators played a major role in the acquisition of the data and revised the manuscript for intellectual content. All authors approved the manuscript.
: The CARE Consortium datasets generated and analyzed during the current study are available in the FITBIR repository (ExternalRef removed).
: Not applicable.