Rigour To ensure rigour, the quality of the data obtained, and the data analysis will be reviewed by the Oxford Brookes ethics committee and the dissertation supervisor prior to commencing (Claydon, L.S., 2015). The established BIPQ was chosen as it has been used in multiple languages in over 188 studies and with various age groups and illness types (Broadbent et al., 2015). The BIPQ was derived from the original Illness Perception Questionnaire (Weinman et al., 1996). Patients given both the BIPQ and the IPQ showed similar results, displaying concurrent validity (Broadbent et al., 2006) and consistency with the self-regulation model (Leventhal et al., 1984). The BIPQ has shown good predictive ability when compared with anxiety and quality of life measures to successfully predict health outcomes in 19 out of 20 longitudinal studies (Broadbent et al., 2015). Discriminant validity was also shown when the BIPQ was administered to different healthcare populations and the obtained data was able to distinguish between different groups. The …show more content…
Other concussion clinics in Vancouver may need to be contacted if more participants are required to complete the proposed study. Patients may also misinterpret the BIPQ and answer a different question than what is being asked (L. van Oort et al., 2011), which may lead to inaccurate results as there are only nine questions (Broadbent et al., 2006). Conducting interviews with open-ended questions, based on the BIPQ may help the researcher obtain more accurate results. Participants may not disclose information such as having multiple concussions or having other medical diagnoses which could lead to skewed data and results. Participants will be recruited based on their current mTBI and gender, but participants have the choice to disclose relevant information to the researcher (Levine,