CONTEXT: Few empirical studies have examined social support from athletic trainers (ATs) and its buffering effect during injury recovery. OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of social support received from ATs during injury recovery on reported symptoms of @entity308 and @entity148 at return to play among a cohort of collegiate @entity2587 . DESIGN: Cohort study. SETTING: Two Big 10 Conference universities. @entity1 OR OTHER @entity1 : A total of 594 injuries sustained by 387 collegiate @entity2587 (397 injuries by 256 males, 197 injuries by 131 females) on 9 sports teams. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Data were collected during the 2007-2011 seasons. Social support was measured using the 6-item Social Support Questionnaire. Symptoms of @entity308 were assessed using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. @entity148 was measured by the State-Trait @entity148 Inventory. We used generalized estimation equation regression models to examine the effect of the social support from ATs on the odds of symptoms of @entity308 and @entity148 at return to play. RESULTS: In 84.3% (n = 501) of injury events, injured @entity2587 received social support from ATs during their recovery. Of these, 264 (53.1%) @entity2587 reported being very satisfied with this social support. Whether or not @entity2587 received social support from ATs during recovery did not affect the symptoms of @entity308 or @entity148 experienced at return to play. However, compared with @entity2587 who were dissatisfied with the social support received from ATs, @entity2587 who were very satisfied or satisfied with this social support were 87% (95% confidence interval = 0.06, 0.30) and 70% (95% confidence interval = 0.13, 0.70) less likely to report symptoms of @entity308 at return to play, respectively. Similar results were observed for @entity148 . CONCLUSIONS: Our findings support the buffering effect of social support from ATs and have important implications for successful recovery in both the physical and psychological aspects for injured @entity2587 .

Social support from the athletic trainer and symptoms of @entity308 and XXXX at return to play.

@entity2587 :: ('MESH:D001265', 'Disease') :: ['athletes'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['PATIENTS', 'PARTICIPANTS'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['depression'] @entity148 :: ('MESH:D001008', 'Disease') :: ['Anxiety', 'anxiety']
@entity148 :: (MESH:D001008,Disease) :: ['anxiety']
