Research Projects

MSTEP

MSTEP is a study evaluating an exercise program to help kids get better from concussion. Specifically, MSTEP is a virtual exercise program that can be used by any child (ages 11-18 years) in the United States. During the study, you are given an exercise program and exercise activities to complete each week, meet with a health coach weekly via Zoom, and answer some survey questions. All participants are provided compensation for their time as a thank you. To learn more about the study, visit the study website. MSTEP is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
MSTEP is currently active and enrolling participants! To see if you can join the MSTEP study, tell us about yourself.
To contact someone from the MSTEP study, please email [email protected].

Care4Kids, or Concussion Assessment Research Education, is a nationwide study for teens with concussions. In this study, we want to learn how to predict concussion symptoms better for teens who have had a concussion and are having symptoms that last a long time.
This is a national study, with research locations across the United States at Seattle Children’s, the University of Washington, University of California at Los Angeles, Children’s National, Wake Forest University, University of Rochester, University of Utah and University of Texas Southwestern.
Care4Kids is currently active and enrolling participants! To see if you can join this study, please fill out the form on our Participate in Research page.
To contact someone from the Care4Kids team, please email [email protected].

The Planning for Acute Concussion Education (PACE) study is learning how to better share information with families after their child receives a closed head injury (i.e., a concussion) and visit the emergency department or urgent care. Specifically, for this study we are trying to understand what the experience are that families have while seeking concussion care in the emergency department and how useful information is about concussion that parents receive while seeking care for their child in the emergency department.
PACE is currently active and enrolling participants! To see if you can join this study, please fill out the form on our Participate in Research page.
To contact someone from the PACE study, please email [email protected].

The Valued Action study is developing a website to help families talk about sports participation after a concussion. Specifically, this study seeks to evaluate what is most useful for all types of families who use the website to talk more about sports participation after a concussion. This is an entirely virtual study, and you can participate from anywhere!
Valued Action is currently active and enrolling participants. To see if you can join this study, please fill out the form on our Participate in Research page.
To contact someone from the Valued Action study, please email [email protected].

InfoCabeza is a collaborative research study that is working to develop innovative, culturally aligned approaches to increase concussion knowledge and decreasing the public impact of sport-related concussion in youth.
This is a community-informed and -developed study, built with our various community partners: South Tacoma United, SeaMar Community Health Centers, Pumas Seattle, and the Latino Educational Training Institute.
This study is actively recruiting and enrolling participants.
To learn more about InfoCabeza, you can visit our developed project.

Four Corners Youth Concussion Registry is an ongoing multi-site research study that is looking to understand the natural history of youth concussion and how it may vary by age, gender, and cause of injury (including type of sport). Information from the registry is designed to inform current study development on ways to improve concussion recovery.
This study is being conducted in partnership with Seattle Children’s, the University of Washington, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Children’s National Medical Center.
We are actively enrolling participants for this study.
If you would like to learn more about this study, visit the study website.

OneTeam was a three-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The goal of this study was to partner with community-based sports leagues to develop and deploy a pre-game activity that fostered sportsmanship and reduced risk of concussion.
This study is no longer active or accepting participants.
To learn more about papers published from the findings of this study, please check our Publications page.

PAC-12 Coach Education was a study with the goal of developing, piloting, and evaluating the efficacy of a bystander-training program that supported the teammates of youth athletes who received a concussion to encourage them to seek help.
This study is no longer active or accepting participants.
To learn more about papers published from the findings of this study, please check our Publications page.