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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The goal of this project is to assess the comparison between male and female college athletes regarding knowledge of concussion treatment and symptoms. STATEMENT OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Surveys will be administered to participants. Participants will all be Missouri Western State University athletes either currently playing a sport in season or has played a sport at the university in the last year. The set of questions will examine the knowledge of concussions. Some questions will also come from actual standardized concussion tests such as from the concussion ImPACT test. ANTICIPATED RISKS AND BENEFITS The research gathered during this study will help increase the knowledge for coaches and clinical use regarding concussions and head-related injuries. This study will not involve any major risks. SUBJECT SELECTION Participants will include 40 total; 20 male college athletes and 20 female college athletes at Missouri Western State University. Athletes will come from various different sports including: 10 from men's basketball, 10 from women's basketball, 5 men from football, 10 women's soccer, and 5 baseball men athletes. CONFIDENTIALITY Data will be kept confidential by obtaining anonymous information, by reporting only overall data, and by not including a participant's name into data when reporting information. Another way to ensure confidentiality is report data that cannot be traced to a subject, either by name, gender, age, race, etc. PRIMARY SUPPORTING DOCUMENT Click for Word Document