How do male professional athletes in team sports experience, respond to and cope with depression during their careers?

这项研究探讨了职业男性运动员在职业生涯中患有抑郁症的经历。这一领域还没有完全被理解和理论化。英国文化、媒体和体育部最近发布了一项《心理健康和精英体育行动计划》，旨在为遭遇心理健康困难的精英运动员提供更多支持。因此，需要高质量的研究来更好地理解这一现象并实现这一计划。研究将采取解释现象学的方法。这将包括深度访谈，结合视觉启发和小插曲，采访40名在职业生涯中经历过抑郁的职业男性运动员(在足球、橄榄球联盟、橄榄球联盟和板球)。此外，还将对支持男性职业运动员的心理健康专业人员进行30次访谈。对运动员的访谈将侧重于探索抑郁症的经历，与心理健康从业者的访谈将探索抑郁症男性专业运动员的共同支持需求，以及成功干预的特征。这两个群体的反映将有助于从整体上看待这一问题，并支持有影响力的干预发展。这项调查将促进对与抑郁症作斗争的男性职业运动员经历的学术了解，并揭示他们的支持网络，以及及时寻求帮助行为的障碍和促进者。研究结果将为心理健康专业人员提供早期干预和最佳做法，帮助抑郁症男性运动员开展工作，并通过定性证据做出明确的政策贡献，帮助实施“心理健康和精英运动行动计划”。

This study explores the experiences of professional male athletes who have sufferedwith depression during their careers. This area is incompletely understood and under theorised. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport have recently released a 'Mental Health and Elite Sport Action Plan' aimed at providing enhanced support to elite athletes who are experiencing mental health difficulty. High quality research istherefore required to better understand the phenomenon and deliver this plan.The research will take an interpretative phenomenological approach. This will involvein-depth interviews, in combination with visual elicitation and vignettes, with 40professional male athletes who have experienced depression during their careers (inFootball, Rugby Union, Rugby League and Cricket). Additionally, 30 interviews with mental health professionals who support male professional athletes will be undertaken. Interviews with athletes will focus on exploring experiences of depression, and interviews with mental health practitioners will explore the common support needs of depressed male professional athletes, and characteristics of successful intervention. The reflections of these two populations will facilitate a holistic perspective of the issue and support impactful intervention development. This investigation will advance academic understanding of the experiences of male professional athletes who have struggled with depression, and shed light on their support networks, and barriers and facilitators of timely help-seeking behaviour. Findings will inform early-intervention and best-practice for mental health professionalsworking with depressed male athletes and make a clear policy contribution through qualitative evidence that can aid the delivery of the 'Mental Health and Elite Sport Action Plan'.