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- Title
Mental Health Literacy Intervention to Reduce Stigma Toward Mental Health Symptoms and Disorders in Women Rugby Players: A Feasibility Study.
- Authors
Oftadeh-Moghadam, Shakiba; Weston, Neil; Gorczynski, Paul
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; HELP-seeking behavior; HEALTH literacy; MENTAL illness; MENTAL health; RUGBY football players; WOMEN'S rugby football; SOCIAL stigma
- Publication
Sport Psychologist, 2023, Vol 37, Issue 2, p119
- ISSN
0888-4781
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/tsp.2022-0142