In this journal article, Tracey Covassin, R.J. Elbin, and Kelly Sarmiento, professors in the department of kinesiology at Michigan state university, developed a survey with questions related to demographics, awareness of concussions, and the usefulness of CDC’s “heads up: Concussion in Youth Sports”. Their findings showed that 77% of the coaches said reported that they were able to identify athletes who may have a concussion thanks to CDC and 50% reported that they learned something new about concussions after looking over the CDC material. They took the data from 340 coaches that completed the survey, there was a 34% response rate. 63% of the coaches looked at concussions as being very serious. They found that overall the CDC heads up material
