PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Claudia L Reardon
AU  - Brian Hainline
AU  - Cindy Miller Aron
AU  - David Baron
AU  - Antonia L Baum
AU  - Abhinav Bindra
AU  - Richard Budgett
AU  - Niccolo Campriani
AU  - João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia
AU  - Alan Currie
AU  - Jeffrey Lee Derevensky
AU  - Ira D Glick
AU  - Paul Gorczynski
AU  - Vincent Gouttebarge
AU  - Michael A Grandner
AU  - Doug Hyun Han
AU  - David McDuff
AU  - Margo Mountjoy
AU  - Aslihan Polat
AU  - Rosemary Purcell
AU  - Margot Putukian
AU  - Simon Rice
AU  - Allen Sills
AU  - Todd Stull
AU  - Leslie Swartz
AU  - Li Jing Zhu
AU  - Lars Engebretsen
TI  - Mental health in elite athletes: International Olympic Committee consensus statement (2019)
AID  - 10.1136/bjsports-2019-100715
DP  - 2019 Jun 01
TA  - British Journal of Sports Medicine
PG  - 667--699
VI  - 53
IP  - 11
4099  - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/11/667.short
4100  - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/11/667.full
SO  - Br J Sports Med2019 Jun 01; 53
AB  - Mental health symptoms and disorders are common among elite athletes, may have sport related manifestations within this population and impair performance. Mental health cannot be separated from physical health, as evidenced by mental health symptoms and disorders increasing the risk of physical injury and delaying subsequent recovery. There are no evidence or consensus based guidelines for diagnosis and management of mental health symptoms and disorders in elite athletes. Diagnosis must differentiate character traits particular to elite athletes from psychosocial maladaptations.Management strategies should address all contributors to mental health symptoms and consider biopsychosocial factors relevant to athletes to maximise benefit and minimise harm. Management must involve both treatment of affected individual athletes and optimising environments in which all elite athletes train and compete. To advance a more standardised, evidence based approach to mental health symptoms and disorders in elite athletes, an International Olympic Committee Consensus Work Group critically evaluated the current state of science and provided recommendations.