Temple University, Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2013 Jul;103(7):1249-54. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301107. Epub 2013 May 16.
I sought to describe current state-wide youth sports traumatic brain injury (TBI) laws and their relationship to prevailing scientific understandings of youth sports TBIs, and to facilitate further research by creating an open-source data set of current laws.
I used Westlaw and LexisNexis databases to create a 50-state data set of youth sports TBI laws enacted between January 2009 and December 2012. I collected and coded the text and citations of each law and developed a protocol and codebook to facilitate future research.
Forty-four states and Washington, DC, passed youth sports TBI laws between 2009 and 2012. No state's youth sports TBI law focuses on primary prevention. Instead, such laws focus on (1) increasing coaches' and parents' ability to identify and respond to TBIs and (2) reducing the immediate risk of multiple TBIs.
Existing youth sports TBI laws were not designed to reduce initial TBIs. Evaluation is required to assess their effectiveness in reducing the risk and consequences of multiple TBIs. Continued research and evaluation of existing laws will be needed to develop a more comprehensive youth TBI-reduction solution.
我试图描述当前全州范围内的青少年运动性脑损伤 (TBI) 法律，以及它们与当前对青少年运动性 TBI 的普遍科学认识之间的关系，并通过创建一个当前法律的开源数据集来促进进一步的研究。
我使用 Westlaw 和 LexisNexis 数据库创建了一个自 2009 年 1 月至 2012 年 12 月期间颁布的 50 个州的青少年运动性 TBI 法律的数据集。我收集和编写了每条法律的文本和引文，并制定了一项协议和代码本，以方便未来的研究。
2009 年至 2012 年间，有 44 个州和哥伦比亚特区通过了青少年运动性 TBI 法律。没有一个州的青少年运动性 TBI 法律专注于初级预防。相反，此类法律侧重于：(1) 提高教练和家长识别和应对 TBI 的能力；(2) 降低多次 TBI 的即时风险。
现有的青少年运动性 TBI 法律并非旨在减少初次 TBI。需要进行评估，以评估其在降低多次 TBI 的风险和后果方面的有效性。需要继续研究和评估现有的法律，以制定更全面的青少年 TBI 减少解决方案。
