Internet-based interventions to promote mental health help-seeking in elite athletes: an exploratory randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental disorders are more common in young adults than at any other life stage. Despite this, young people have low rates of seeking professional help for mental health problems. Young elite athletes have less positive attitudes toward seeking help than nonathletes and thus may be particularly unlikely to seek help. Interventions aimed at increasing help-seeking in young elite athletes are warranted.

Objective

To test the feasibility and efficacy of three Internet-based interventions designed to increase mental health help-seeking attitudes, intentions, and behavior in young elite athletes compared with a control condition.

Methods

We conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of three brief fully automated Internet-based mental health help-seeking interv

SUBMITTER: Gulliver A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3414855 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature