Self-reported comfort in athletic training of gender-specific and non-gender-specific injuries and issues.

Context: To assist athletes in maintaining optimal health, athletic trainers must work with athletes of both sexes.

Objective: To examine athletic trainers' comfort levels in providing care for gender-specific and non-gender-specific injuries and issues.

Design: We mailed 235 Gender Comfort in Athletic Training Questionnaires to program directors, who were asked to distribute and collect them.

Self-reported comfort in athletic training to same- and opposite-sex athletes.

To assess the comfort of athletic trainers in providing care to athletes of the same- and opposite-sex, the Gender Comfort in Athletic Training Questionnaire was developed. Cronbach alpha was .72.