RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Mental health in elite athletes: International Olympic Committee consensus statement (2019)
JF British Journal of Sports Medicine
JO Br J Sports Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
SP 667
OP 699
DO 10.1136/bjsports-2019-100715
VO 53
IS 11
A1 Claudia L Reardon
A1 Brian Hainline
A1 Cindy Miller Aron
A1 David Baron
A1 Antonia L Baum
A1 Abhinav Bindra
A1 Richard Budgett
A1 Niccolo Campriani
A1 João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia
A1 Alan Currie
A1 Jeffrey Lee Derevensky
A1 Ira D Glick
A1 Paul Gorczynski
A1 Vincent Gouttebarge
A1 Michael A Grandner
A1 Doug Hyun Han
A1 David McDuff
A1 Margo Mountjoy
A1 Aslihan Polat
A1 Rosemary Purcell
A1 Margot Putukian
A1 Simon Rice
A1 Allen Sills
A1 Todd Stull
A1 Leslie Swartz
A1 Li Jing Zhu
A1 Lars Engebretsen
YR 2019
UL http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/11/667.abstract
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.