| Summary: | 碩士 === 長庚大學 === 復健科學研究所 === 96 === Objective. It is well documented that health service professionals are vulnerable to occupational injuries. However, little information is available for the athletic trainers (ATs), especially those in Taiwan, not mentioning proper interventions, prevention, or protection. The purposes of this cross-sectional study were to investigate the followings: (1) the prevalence, region, and type of physical injuries, (2) degree of burnout, (3) activities that caused injury, and (4) related factors associated with these occupational injuries experienced by ATs. Method. A survey consisted of demographic and work-related information, physical injury, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was administered to all accessible ATs in Taiwan. Result. A total of 154 questionnaires were returned from the 221 mailed (response rate = 69.7%) with 8 considered as invalid afterward. About Fifty percent of the athletic trainers experienced at least one physical injury by the time of survey. The most frequently reported physical injuries was at the lower back (42.0%), followed by finger (40.6%) and shoulder (23.2%). The most frequently reported injury types was overuse (65.2%), followed by sprain (26.1%) and tendonitis/tenosynovitis (23.2%). The highest injury-related activity was “performing manual tasks” (27.5%). There were 36.3% athletic trainers with moderate to high degree of burnout. The overall MBI scores revealed moderate emotion exhaustion , low depersonalization , and moderate personal accomplishment. There were 33.3% high degree of emotional exhaustion, 6.9% degree of high depersonalization, and 27.8% low degree of personal accomplishment. Of the 26 factors surveyed, age, license, martial status, work hours per week etc. Conclusion. The findings suggest the need for reengineering of ATs’ work to prevent occupational injuries in ATs in Taiwan.
Key words: Occupational injuries, athletic trainers, physical injuries, burnout, & Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI).
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