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The Effects of Playing High School Football on Later Life Cognitive Functioning and Mental Health

NCT02833129 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 3904

Last updated 2016-07-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of playing high school football on later in life cognitive functioning and mental health. This is an observational study that will use data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study to compare high school football playing graduates in 1957 with comparable non-high school football playing graduates on cognitive functioning and mental health measures when participants are in their 60s.

Conditions

  • Memory Impairment
  • Executive Dysfunction
  • Depression

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Sameer Deshpande · University of Pennsylvania

  • Raiden Hasegawaa · University of Pennsylvania

  • Dylan S Small, PhD · University of Pennsylvania

Eligibility

Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1957-01-31
Primary Completion
2003-12-31
Completion
2011-12-31

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