Christopher Ludwig

Your mindset is either building your life or breaking it.

If you think negative, you act negative.

If you act negative, you get negative results.

Simple.

You can blame people, luck, or circumstances all you want.

It won’t change anything.

Because the problem starts in your head.

Fix that, or watch your life stay stuck in the same cycle.👊🔥

A leader sees the best in everyone.
Focusing on strengths helps the team win.

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Leaders with multiple personalities and untrust worthy and constantly changing their mind can hinder the teams performance and build of trust.

If we want to win as leaders, we must embrace the value of teamwork. Because teams that don’t bond can’t build!

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Secondary School Athletic Trainers... We need your help!

We invite you to participate in a research questionnaire intended to help us understand Athletic Trainer Mental Health Screening Practices in Secondary School (i.e., 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th grades) Pre-participation Examinations. You are being asked to participate because your input, knowledge, and responses are vital to understanding this phenomenon and informing the future of health care.

QUESTIONAIRE: https://fresnostate.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8jCwhiSZklKG6IS

The questionnaire will take approximately 8-minutes to complete, and your participation is voluntary. All responses to this survey will remain confidential; no one will be able to identify you or your answers. There are no right/wrong answers to any questions. We ask only that you answer with what first comes to mind. If you do not feel a question is relevant to your experience, you may skip it. We hope you will answer most of the items, but you do not have to answer any question you do not want to answer for any reason at all.

The project has been certified exempt by the California State University, Fresno Institutional Review Board. By responding to the items, you are declaring that you are at least 18 years of age and grant permission to investigators to use your de-identified answers in this research. Again, your responses will not be associated with your personal identity in any way.If you have any questions, please ask us.

If you have any additional questions.

Respectfully,
C. Ludwig

Christopher M. Ludwig, EdD, ATC
California State University, Fresno
Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology
Faculty, Athletic Training program
5275 N. Campus Drive., Fresno CA 93740
Office: South Gym, 121
Email: [email protected]

Secondary School Athletic Trainers…

My colleague and I invite you to participate in a research questionnaire designed to examine athletic trainers’ mental health screening practices during secondary school (9th–12th grade) pre-participation examinations. Your input, knowledge, and responses are vital to understanding this issue and informing the future of health care. Here is our questionnaire Link: https://fresnostate.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8jCwhiSZklKG6IS

The questionnaire will take about 8-minutes to complete. Participation is voluntary, and all responses will remain confidential; no one will be able to identify you or your answers.

There are no right or wrong answers. We ask only that you respond with your honest perspective. If a question does not feel relevant to your experience, you may skip it.

This project has been certified exempt by the California State University, Fresno Institutional Review Board. By completing the questionnaire, you confirm that you are at least 18-years of age and consent to investigators using your de-identified responses for research purposes.

If you have questions about the study, please contact:
Dr. Christopher Ludwig
(559) 278-0092
[email protected]

For questions about your rights as a research participant, please contact:
Dr. Emily Mason, Chair
Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects
California State University, Fresno
(559) 278-4468
[email protected]

Thank you for considering participation in this research.

Secondary School Athletic Trainers… please consider helping us with our research!!
Questionnaire Link: https://fresnostate.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8jCwhiSZklKG6IS

Good afternoon! My colleague and I would like to invite you to participate in a research questionnaire intended to help us understand athletic trainers’ mental health screening practices in secondary school (i.e., 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th grades) pre-participation examinations. You are being asked to participate because your input, knowledge, and responses are vital to understanding this phenomenon and informing the future of health care.

The questionnaire will take approximately 8-minutes to complete, and your participation is voluntary. All responses to this survey will remain confidential; no one will be able to identify you or your answers.

There are no right/wrong answers to any questions. We ask only that you answer with what first comes to mind. If you do not feel a question is relevant to your experience, you may skip it. We hope you will answer most of the items, but you do not have to answer any question you do not want to answer for any reason at all.

The project has been certified exempt by the California State University, Fresno Institutional Review Board. By responding to the items, you are declaring that you are at least 18 years of age and grant permission to investigators to use your de-identified answers in this research. Again, your responses will not be associated with your personal identity in any way.

If you have any questions, please ask us. If you have any additional questions -
Dr. Christopher Ludwig, (559) 278-0092, [email protected]

Questions regarding the rights of research participants may be directed to -

Dr. Emily Mason, Chair, California State University, Fresno, Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, (559) 278-4468, [email protected]

Questionnaire Link: https://fresnostate.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8jCwhiSZklKG6IS