Heads Up Football Sociology

This experiment is a correlational study because it is used to see if there is a correlation between concussion knowledge and socioeconomic class. This study was used to see if the coaches that lived in a lower socioeconomic class had less concussion education through than coaches who lived in a higher socioeconomic class, and how effective the Heads Up Football (HUF) program is. The participants of this study were 5,263 leagues that sponsored youth football. Zip codes were used for the demographics of the community in that area. They were then divided into nine regions. USA football then reported how many coaches had completed HUF in each demographic area. They used American Community Survey (ACS) to determine what was predominant in each …show more content…
They then compared the HUF-certified coaches to see if they fell above or below the sample median line that was provided by USA football. The type of validity they used was construct and to make sure their measurements were valid they only used one league from each zip code since typically the socioeconomic class is very similar throughout the zip code. Through the results the found that almost 20% of these people in these areas fell below the poverty line and only 29% of people had a bachelor’s degree or more, and most had at least a high school education, and about 60% had at least some college education. They also found that the majority who participated were White Americans at 74.37% and African Americans at 13.80%. The results were then broke down into regions where they found that in the New England region had the highest percentage of coaches who were HUF-certified coaches at 68.64%, followed by the East North Central region at 67.20. The region that had the lowest percentage of coaches HUF-certified was the South Atlantic region at 50.35%. They then used Univariate Poisson regression analyses which showed that overall coaches who were apart of the lower socioeconomic classes had a fewer