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  • Primary Care Linkages
  • Adolescent Health

Background:

  • Outreach athletic trainers (ATs) serve as a novel community-clinical link between high school students and family medicine practices.
  • Understanding the student-AT relationship is crucial for optimizing healthcare access and outcomes for adolescents.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantitatively explore the relationship between high school students and outreach athletic trainers.
  • To identify factors influencing student trust in athletic trainers.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-sectional study was conducted.
  • Data were collected from students and parents/guardians during preparticipation examinations.
  • 79 participants (42 students, 37 parents/guardians) were recruited.

Main Results:

  • Parent/guardian trust in ATs, distrust in the healthcare system, student health literacy, and student age predicted student trust in ATs.
  • Students expressed willingness to discuss concussions, headaches, and mental health concerns with ATs.

Conclusions:

  • Athletic trainers are perceived as trusted health professionals.
  • ATs are well-positioned to facilitate whole-person care for students.
  • ATs can effectively link students to family medicine and primary care services.