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## Background: Football participation is associated with risks to acute and long-term health, including the possibility of incurring football-related dementia. Concerns have been raised regarding media coverage of these risks, which may have influenced athletes’ beliefs. However, little is known about football players’ views on football-related dementia. The risk-perception literature suggests that related risk perceptions and features of individual cognition, such as the ability to switch to reasoned, deliberative thinking, may influence individual perception of a long-term risk. ## Purpose: To evaluate factors influencing college football players’ belief that they are likely to incur football-related dementia in the future. ## Study Design: Cross-sectional study. ## Methods: Members of 4 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Power 5 Football teams participated in this survey-based study, providing responses to demographic, athletic, and risk-posture questions, and completed the cognitive reflection test. Logistic regressions were used to evaluate relationships between beliefs about football-related dementia and factors including athletic and demographic characterist

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Author

Baugh, Christine M. (author);Gedlaman, Mason A. (author);Daneshvar, Daniel H. (author);Kroshus, Emily (author)

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)