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A comprehensive research agenda is urgently needed to address the significant lack of research on the mental health of sports match officials and to develop evidence-based interventions.
Highlights the lack of research on mental health symptoms and disorders among sports match officials and proposes a research agenda to build an evidence base.
Little research has examined the mental health symptoms and disorders of sports match officials, in any sport, anywhere in the world. This lack of research has created a deficit of mental health knowledge for sports match officials and prevented the design, testing, and dissemination of evidence-based mental health interventions. The purposes of this paper are to briefly outline the limited research that does exist on the mental health symptoms and disorders of sports match officials and to establish a research agenda that begins to build an evidence-base for future multidisciplinary research and practice. Only through collaborative efforts, that aim to help both individuals and organizations, can poor mental health in this population be addressed.
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Gorczynski et al. (2020) conducted an editorial in Mental health symptoms and disorders. A comprehensive research agenda is urgently needed to address the significant lack of research on the mental health of sports match officials and to develop evidence-based interventions.
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