Scaling new heights: a prospective survey of rock climbing's impact on mental health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sport climbing, officially added to the 2020 Summer Olympics, has grown rapidly, with U.S. climbing gyms increasing from 310 in 2013 to 591 in 2021. Over the past decade, European research has identified bouldering as a potential psychotherapeutic treatment for anxiety and depression. Randomized controlled trials have compared bouldering psychotherapy (BPT) to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), showing that BPT produces comparable results and positively impacts mental health.

Purpose

There have been very few studies dedicated to the use of rock climbing as a therapy in the United States; further, there are few surveys that investigate whether American climbers would even consider climbing as beneficial towards mental health or not. With the ever-growing prevalenc

SUBMITTER: Chen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11883046 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature