Journal
SPORT PSYCHOLOGIST
Volume -, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
HUMAN KINETICS PUBL INC
DOI: 10.1123/tsp.2022-0142
Keywords
help-seeking; well-being; female athletes; contact sports; gender
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This feasibility study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention on stigma toward mental health symptoms and disorders, mental health literacy, and help-seeking intentions among U.K. semielite women rugby players. The intervention was successful in enhancing the players' mental health literacy and reducing stigmatizing attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. However, acknowledging the study's small sample size, there is a need for scaffolding to support future developments, advancements, and maintenance of mental health support in women's rugby.
This feasibility study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention on stigma toward mental health symptoms and disorders, mental health literacy, and help-seeking intentions among U.K. semielite women rugby players. Seven semielite women rugby players participated. An A-B-A single-case experimental research design was used to assess stigma toward mental health symptoms and disorders, mental health literacy, and help-seeking intentions at baseline, intervention, and follow-up phases. The intervention was successful in enhancing the players' mental health literacy and reducing stigmatizing attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. Acknowledging the study's small sample size, the findings revealed that there is a need for scaffolding to support future developments, advancements, and maintenance of mental health support in women's rugby. Practical implications of future findings from a larger-scale study may lead to policy reformation across the game to inform and improve systemic mental health support for women rugby players.
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