The working group's research is carried out as part of various international and national project co-operations. In addition, there is close co-operation with the ISSP Scientific Committee and its members.
In accordance with the 1Research Agenda for Sport Psychiatry, the working group deals with the following topics, among others:
Sports psychiatry as a discipline of medicine and psychiatry
Education and training in sports psychiatry
- Systematic and empirical development of sports psychiatry as a specialist field [various projects; cooperation with the ISSP Board and the ISSP Scientific Committee]
Mental health and disorders in competitive and elite sports
- Mental health screening within the annual pre-participation examination in Switzerland [cooperation with Philipp Roethlin and Daniel Birrer, Elite Sport Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen, Switzerland]
- Diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders in elite sports
- Violence and abuse in sports [Ralph Schmidt]
- RED-S in female elite athletes and its association with depression and eating disorders [Robin Halioua / cooperation with Karsten Köhler, TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich]
- Elite coaches’ mental health and its influence on elite athletes [Laura Baumann]
- Mental health and disorders in elite alpine skiing [In preparation]
- Mental health in elite Swiss para-sports [cooperation with Nikolai Kiselev, Swiss Institute for Addiction and Health Research, University of Zurich]
Mental health and sports-specific mental disorders in recreational sports
- Purging behaviours in individuals at-risk for muscle dysmorphia [Robin Halioua and Fabian Slama]
- Step counting as a possible compensatory behaviour in individuals at risk for muscle dysmorphia and its association with binge eating and purging [Robin Halioua and Fabian Slama]
- Image- and performance-enhancing drug use in recreational sports: epidemiology, characterization and psychiatric implications
1Claussen MC, Currie A, Burger JW, Prossor D, Glick I. A working research agenda for sports psychiatry. Sports Psychiatry 2024;1–10. doi: 10.1024/2674-0052/a000090
