MSTEP is a study evaluating an exercise program to help kids get better from concussion. Specifically, MSTEP is a virtual exercise program that can be used by any child (ages 11-18 years) in the United States. During the study, you are given an exercise program and exercise activities to complete each week, meet with a health coach weekly via Zoom, and answer some survey questions. All participants are provided compensation for their time as a thank you. To learn more about the study, visit the study website. MSTEP is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
MSTEP is currently active and enrolling participants! To see if you can join the MSTEP study, tell us about yourself.
Care4Kids, or Concussion Assessment Research Education, is a nationwide study for teens with concussions. In this study, we want to learn how to predict concussion symptoms better for teens who have had a concussion and are having symptoms that last a long time.
This is a national study, with research locations across the United States at Seattle Children’s, the University of Washington, University of California at Los Angeles, Children’s National, Wake Forest University, University of Rochester, University of Utah and University of Texas Southwestern.
Care4Kids is currently active and enrolling participants! To see if you can join this study, please fill out the form on our Participate in Research page.
CHIP stands for Concussion Health Improvement Program and is a study evaluating how different strategies and techniques can help kids recover from concussion more quickly.
The program is all virtual and is right now offered to youth 11-18 years old. Participants are randomized to one of eight pathways and receive different types of support through a skills coach (directed towards parents, kids or both) depending on randomization. Incentives are provided for participation.
The Planning for Acute Concussion Education (PACE) study is learning how to better share information with families after their child receives a closed head injury (i.e., a concussion) and visit the emergency department or urgent care. Specifically, for this study we are trying to understand what the experience are that families have while seeking concussion care in the emergency department and how useful information is about concussion that parents receive while seeking care for their child in the emergency department.
PACE is currently active and enrolling participants! To see if you can join this study, please fill out the form on our Participate in Research page.
The Valued Action study is developing a website to help families talk about sports participation after a concussion. Specifically, this study seeks to evaluate what is most useful for all types of families who use the website to talk more about sports participation after a concussion. This is an entirely virtual study, and you can participate from anywhere!
Valued Action is currently active and enrolling participants. To see if you can join this study, please fill out the form on our Participate in Research page.
Four Corners Youth Concussion Registry (4CYC) is a multi-site research study that loos to understand the natural history of youth concussion and how it may vary by age, gender, and cause of injury (including type of sport). Information from the registry is designed to inform current study development on ways to improve concussion recovery.
This study was conducted in partnership with Seattle Children’s, the University of Washington, the University of Los Angeles, and Children’s National Medical Center.
This study is no longer active or accepting participants.
InfoCabeza is a collaborative study that is working to develop innovative, culturally aligned approaches to increase concussion knowledge and decreasing the public impact of sport-related concussion in youth.
OneTeam was a three-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The goal of this study was to partner with community-based sports leagues to develop and deploy a pre-game activity that fostered sportsmanship and reduced risk of concussion.
This study is no longer active or accepting participants.
To learn more about papers published from the findings of this study, please check our Publications page.
PAC-12 Coach Education
PAC-12 Coach Education was a study with the goal of developing, piloting, and evaluating the efficacy of a bystander-training program that supported the teammates of youth athletes who received a concussion to encourage them to seek help.
This study is no longer active or accepting participants.
To learn more about papers published from the findings of this study, please check our Publications page.