A Program to Reduce Stigma Toward Mental Illness and Promote Mental Health Literacy and Help-Seeking in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Student-Athletes

Five-Year Experience with Screening Electrocardiograms in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Athletes

OBJECTIVE (1) Compare rates of abnormal screening electrocardiograms (ECGs) using updated criteria compared with older criteria. (2) Compare rates of abnormal ECGs by ethnicity. (3) Evaluate ability of ECG criteria to detect the predicted number of athletes with previously undetected cardiovascular abnormalities. DESIGN Prospective and retrospective review of ECGs. During the prospective port...

Association between concussion and mental health in former collegiate athletes

BACKGROUND The existing research on the association between concussion and mental health outcomes is largely limited to former professional athletes. This cross-sectional study estimated the association between recurrent concussion and depression, impulsivity, and aggression in former collegiate athletes. METHODS Former collegiate athletes who played between 1987-2012 at a Division I universi...

Mental Health Literacy and Stigma in Participants of a Self-help Program

National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Athletes’ Use of Nonprescription Medication

BACKGROUND Athletes are known to use over-the-counter pain medication. However, the frequency of such use among National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I-A football athletes is unknown. HYPOTHESIS NCAA Division I-A football athletes who use nonprescription analgesics for pain misuse these medications. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHODS The football players (N, 14...

Stigma and help seeking for mental health among college students.

Mental illness stigma has been identified by national policy makers as an important barrier to help seeking for mental health. Using a random sample of 5,555 students from a diverse set of 13 universities, we conducted one of the first empirical studies of the association of help-seeking behavior with both perceived public stigma and people's own stigmatizing attitudes (personal stigma). There ...