RPQ Post-Concussion Symptom Scale Score Interpretation
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The RPQ assessment in Creyos evaluates post-concussive symptoms and severity over time to help support effective treatment and symptom management.
Administer the RPQ alongside cognitive tasks to determine if a patient requires further cognitive testing or rehabilitation.
Give patients the option to complete the RPQ in person or at home, improving access to assessment and treatment.
Benchmark and continuously evaluate post-concussive symptom progression with a centralized patient health record that includes longitudinal data.
Time since injury, affected brain areas, age, sex, and baseline physical and cognitive health can all affect a patient’s symptom severity. Discover how digitized questionnaires alongside measures of cognitive function in Creyos Health can support patient outcomes.
Review our guide below for a complete list of standardized questionnaires available in Creyos.
The Rivermead Post-Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire offered through Creyos is a self-report scale designed to measure symptoms associated with post-concussion syndrome.
When administered alongside measures of cognitive performance, it allows clinicians to:
Patients can complete the RPQ in person through the Creyos Health platform on an in-clinic device or at home through a provided link.
The RPQ contains a series of questions that asks patients to rate the severity of post-concussion symptoms in the last 24 hours on a scale from 0 (“not experienced at all”) to 4 (“a severe problem”).
Creyos Health automatically scores RPQ results and provides reports. Higher scores indicate a greater severity of post-concussion symptoms.
Healthcare providers can discuss results with patients and plan for follow-up assessments to track meaningful changes in cognitive health over time.
Between 1.6 and 3.8 million concussions occur each year in the United States as a result of sports or recreational activities, and experts say that many more go unreported. These injuries can lead to a range of cognitive, physical, emotional, and sensory issues that can last for years or decades. Executive functioning deficits in particular—including attention, short- and long-term memory, processing speed, planning, and decision-making—can significantly reduce a person’s quality of life post-concussion.
A study using Creyos Health tasks found identical difficulties with response inhibition (measured using our Double Trouble task) in both members of the general public who had a history of concussion and an independent sample of American football players. This emphasizes the need for comprehensive symptom measurement and tracking, such as the RPQ and cognitive tasks in Creyos Health.
Source: Harmon & Drezner, 2013; Ledwidge et al., 2022; Stafford et al., 2020
The RPQ evaluates symptoms following a concussion, including physical (headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light or sound, fatigue, sleep disturbances), cognitive (difficulty concentrating, memory issues, slowed thinking, poor judgment, difficulty following conversations), emotional (irritability, anxiety, depression, mood swings), and sensory (blurred vision, tinnitus, numbness, tingling).
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