Coping strategies for handling stress and providing mental health in elite athletes: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The combination of stressors unique to the athletic context plus the sensitive developmental phase that elite athletes go through during their peak performance may increase the athletes' vulnerability to mental health decrements. To emphasize the necessity to raise elite athletes' awareness of health risks, it seems to be essential to teach them coping skills to handle stress and to make affected athletes aware of how to recognize, evaluate, and articulate potential risks to their health.

Objective

This systematic review analyzes coping strategies used by elite athletes to deal with stress and the effect of these strategies on mental health to identify gaps that future research could prioritize.

Methods

The current review analyzes studies containing quantit

SUBMITTER: Nuetzel B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10687549 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature