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Mental health management of elite athletes during COVID-19: a narrative review and recommendations

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  • Claudia L Reardon Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA University Health Services, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Abhinav Bindra Zirakpur, Punjab, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Cheri Blauwet Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Richard Budgett Medical and Scientific Department, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Niccolo Campriani Sports Department, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alan Currie Regional Affective Disorders Service, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Vincent Gouttebarge Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands AMC/VUmc IOC Research Center of Excellence, Amsterdam Collaboration on Health & Safety in Sports (ACHSS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • David McDuff Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA MD Sports Performance, Ellicott City, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Margo Mountjoy Family Medicine, McMaster University Michael G DeGroote School of Medicine, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Bureau, FINA, Lausanne, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rosemary Purcell Department of Research and Translation, Orygen The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Margot Putukian Athletic Medicine, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Simon Rice Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Research and Translation, Orygen The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Brian Hainline National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Claudia L Reardon, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; clreardon{at}wisc.edu
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Reardon CL, Bindra A, Blauwet C, et al
Mental health management of elite athletes during COVID-19: a narrative review and recommendations
British Journal of Sports Medicine 2021;55:608-615.

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  • Accepted August 28, 2020
  • First published September 23, 2020.
Online issue publication 
May 17, 2021

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