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However, at-risk populations such as collegiate athletes and military academy cadets often have been shown to under-report concussions and symptoms, complicating diagnosis, treatment, and policy-based interventions. The purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing concussion reporting in United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) cadets.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Semi-structured interviews were conducted on 34 cadets (18 with concussion history; 16 without concussion history). This study was approved by the USAFA Institutional Review Board. Analysis included a five-cycle process of clarifying the topic at hand through an introduction, conducting a literature review, data collection and summarization, relating current findings to current literature, and making final interpretations. Data were summarized by creation of a codebook after reading five transcripts and identifying meaningful units. A four-person research team read and identified meaningful units individually, then met to discuss common meaningful units and codebook creation. Once the codebook was created, the lead researcher used the codebook to code all transcripts.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Eight themes were generated from interview transcripts. This manuscript focuses on the perceived costs following a concussion theme and the following subthemes: perceived costs to physical fitness, military career aspirations, pilot qualifications, sport, reputation, academics, and lack of time.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Cadet interviews described a complex environment where concussions were often viewed as costly to future career ambitions and provided potential reasons for non-disclosure largely including disruption in daily life. Reduction in perceived and actual harms due to concussion disclosure will require not only improving clinical care, but also addressing barriers to self-disclosure. Additionally, research suggests the sooner one reports a concussion, the sooner they return to physical or military activity. Educational interventions should be designed to address the perceived costs identified from our study and educate cadets that while some costs may be reality, others may not. Secondly, it should also be stressed to cadets that the sooner one seeks medical attention following a concussion, the sooner they may return to activity. Messaging around these themes may decrease the costs associated with time removed from academics, athletics, or military activities therefore minimizing attempts at concussion self-management. Lastly, if efforts are made to improve the overall concussion disclosure stigma, cadets may increase seeking care after injury because their reputation may not be as impacted.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/milmed\/usz162","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,3]],"date-time":"2019-07-03T09:04:12Z","timestamp":1562144652000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["United States Air Force Academy Cadets\u2019 Perceived Costs of Concussion Disclosure"],"prefix":"10.1093","author":[{"given":"Michelle L Weber","family":"Rawlins","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Georgia, 330 River Road, Athens, GA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Brian R","family":"Johnson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Ave, Silver Spring, MD"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Johna 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