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Athletic Training Students: A Case Study

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This study is unique in that it examined burnout in athletic training students by using stress reducing strategies and techniques to assist with stress the athletic training students were experiencing. The intent was to determine whether or not specific stress reducing strategies and tools that were provided to assisted athletic training students to reduce stress. The Athletic Training Student Burnout Inventory (ATSBI) was developed by combining a modified version Athletic Training Burnout Inventory (ATBI) and the Gallup Student Poll (GSP). The survey consisted of 55 questions, 35 from the modified version of the ATBI and 20 from the GSP. The constructs for the ATBI were Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization (EE and D), Academic Responsibility (AR), Time Commitment (TC), and Organizational Support …show more content…

The athletic training students were asked to attempt to complete the specific stress reducing technique for the week. Furthermore, the completion of the specific tool for the week was then recorded in the mode of the minute paper. Thus, after each stress reducing technique was applied a record of information was completed for accountability. The accountability came in the mode of a minute paper the athletic training students completed on a weekly basis. Therefore, by collecting specific information the researcher knew if the students completed the stress reducing technique. The questions on the minute paper provided information regarding the athletic training students stress levels, if they used the stress reducing technique, and two open ended questions asking for feedback regarding the stress reducing technique. These questions were analyzes and coded for themes. Consequently, specific themes emerged from each question for each stress reducing technique. The themes were gathered into a document and portrayed in a Wordle, a word cloud, for a visual

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