Athletes' access to, attitudes towards and experiences of help-seeking for mental health: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Athletes have been found to experience a similar prevalence of mental health issues to non-athletes. However, they are subjected to a greater array of barriers to help-seeking for mental health, including sport-specific factors. This scoping review synthesised the literature on athletes' access to, attitudes towards and experiences of help-seeking for mental health from formal (mental health professionals such as psychiatrists) and semiformal sources (those who are not mental health professionals but are a service provider such as a coach).

Design

The Joanna Briggs Institute framework and recommendations were used alongside the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses-Protocols checklist for scoping reviews. This scoping review was predom

SUBMITTER: Brown KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12336477 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature