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Abstract
Sports psychiatry is still evolving as a professional specialty. In part this is because it lacks a knowledge base, and in part because the incidence and prevalence of psychiatric illness in athletes is generally low. Therefore, very few clinicians have the experience, and no one has had a large enough sample to do systematic surveys of incidence or prevalence, or to do controlled treatment studies with adequate sample sizes. (Glick& Horsfall, 2005)
Although there has been a growing interest in recent years on research related to athletes’ mental health as well as the role of the interplay between well-balanced physical and mental health on athletic performance, the research on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in that population has been minimal. (Broshek& Freeman, 2005)
Understanding mental health issues in the athlete population is important. Athletes are involved in supervised and organized institutes; therefore, there is ample opportunity for developing and implementing effective prevention and treatment interventions in this population, hence, improving their performance.
The lack of epidemiological data on the mental health status of athletes makes it difficult to develop mental health interventions. (Yang et al, 2007)
This study was conducted to shed light on understanding the reciprocal effects of sports and psychiatric morbidity, and to examine how athletes’ individual factors may affect psychiatric symptoms among this population, hence, develop better strategies while dealing with such problems. It was divided into four main parts including introduction and literature review, methodology, results and discussion sections.
In the introduction and literature review section a concise and comprehensive view of the field of sport psychiatry was attempted to provide an idea about the main aspects, interests and goals of that relatively new field of psychiatry.
That was followed by the practical section that Aimed to:
• To specify the common psychiatric morbidities in Egyptian competitive athletes.
• To identify relationship between the type of sport and psychiatric morbidity.
• To examine the patterns of coping in that population.
• To consider the difference in coping patterns, and their relation to the existence of psychiatric morbidity.
Methodology:
Study Design: Cross sectional study
Study Site: The subjects were selected from sporting clubs that compete in national championships in Cairo and Giza
Study Time: about 15 months (March 2010- June 2011).
Subjects: a stratified random sample was used. 101 athletes were included divided into four equal groups namely power, combat, team and other sports
Tools:
I-General Health Questionnaire (GHQ): (Goldberg and Hillier, 1979). Arabic version (Okasha et al, 1988):
II-Coping Processes Scale (CPS): (Ibrahim, 1996)
III-The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV axis II disorders (SCID-II): (First et al., 1997). Arabic version (Hatata et al, 2004)
IV-Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV- Clinician Version (SCID-CV): (First et al., 1997) Arabic version: (Missiry et al, 2004)
Procedures:
The study proper was preceded by a pilot study to identify any problems that can face the study proper, determine the size of the sample, identify suitability of tools used and assess reliability of clinical diagnosis. The study proper was carried out over a 15 months period starting from March 2010 to June 2011
All data gathered were organized, tabulated and transferred on Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 17, using personal computer and the suitable statistical parameters were used. Results were displayed to cover the aims of this study.