Changes in sport-related concussion and traumatic brain injury in New Zealand during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic

Reidar P. Lystad

doi:10.1016/j.jsams.2023.03.006

Changes in sport-related concussion and traumatic brain injury in New Zealand during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic

Reidar P. Lystad

Australian Institute of Health Innovation

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Objectives: To quantify changes in sport-related concussion and traumatic brain injury claims in New Zealand during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., 2020 and 2021). Design: Population-based cohort study. Methods: This study included all new sport-related concussion and traumatic brain injury claims that were registered with the Accident Compensation Corporation in New Zealand during 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2021. Annual sport-related concussion and traumatic brain injury claim rates per 100,000 population from 2010 to 2019 were used to fit autoregressive integrated moving average models, from which forecast estimates with 95 % prediction intervals for 2020 and 2021 were derived and compared against corresponding observed values to obtain estimates of absolute and relative forecast errors. Results: Sport-related concussion and traumatic brain injury claim rates were 30 % and 10 % lower than forecasted in 2020 and 2021, respectively, equating to an estimated total of 2410 fewer sport-related concussion and traumatic brain injury claims during the two-year period. Conclusions: There was a large reduction in sport-related concussion and traumatic brain injury claims in New Zealand during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings highlight the need for future epidemiological studies examining temporal trends of sport-related concussion and traumatic brain injury to account for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	241-246
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
Volume	26
Issue number	4-5
Early online date	13 Mar 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2023.03.006
Publication status	Published - 9 Jun 2023

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Keywords

Athletic injuries
Concussion
Head injury
Head trauma
Incidence
Mild traumatic brain injury

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