Mental health in elite athletes : International Olympic Committee consensus statement (2019) / Claudia L. Reardon... [et al.]

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Mental health in elite athletes : International Olympic Committee consensus statement (2019) / Claudia L. Reardon... [et al.]

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. 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.