In the field of sport performance, it is important that data collected in research is conveyed and translated as accessible information to practitioners, coaches and athletes. This is essential for all parties to be able to set objective and meaningful interventions to improve performance. For practitioners, it is also key that such research is relevant to their athletes’ needs and reflective of sports performance environments. Therefore communication, collaboration and adoption of evidence-based practice is vitally important when applying findings from research data to athlete interventions.
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living has organized a series of Research Topics focused on research which aims to improve the translation of sport science and psychology from ‘Evidence to Practice’. Our key objectives are:
1) To highlight effective examples of translational science between scientific research and real-life environments;
2) To encourage collaboration between researchers and practitioners to improve coherence and a better understanding of each other’s fields, including the environment, athletes’ preferences and coaches’ expertise/experience;
3) To provide guidance on how to form integrated models in sport performance and athletes’ mental health.
In particular, this Research Topic seeks to ‘bridge the gap’ between research integrating mental performance, mental health, and / or mental illness in sport, and applied practice by mental health and mental performance practitioners. We welcome contributions that explore collaborative practice, the application of mental skills towards maintaining positive mental health and recovering from mental illness in sport, coaching practices that promote mental health, or the development, implementation, and / or evaluation of individual and system-level interventions to improve mental health outcomes in sport.
All papers must include a strong focus on translational research and practical applications.
In the field of sport performance, it is important that data collected in research is conveyed and translated as accessible information to practitioners, coaches and athletes. This is essential for all parties to be able to set objective and meaningful interventions to improve performance. For practitioners, it is also key that such research is relevant to their athletes’ needs and reflective of sports performance environments. Therefore communication, collaboration and adoption of evidence-based practice is vitally important when applying findings from research data to athlete interventions.
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living has organized a series of Research Topics focused on research which aims to improve the translation of sport science and psychology from ‘Evidence to Practice’. Our key objectives are:
1) To highlight effective examples of translational science between scientific research and real-life environments;
2) To encourage collaboration between researchers and practitioners to improve coherence and a better understanding of each other’s fields, including the environment, athletes’ preferences and coaches’ expertise/experience;
3) To provide guidance on how to form integrated models in sport performance and athletes’ mental health.
In particular, this Research Topic seeks to ‘bridge the gap’ between research integrating mental performance, mental health, and / or mental illness in sport, and applied practice by mental health and mental performance practitioners. We welcome contributions that explore collaborative practice, the application of mental skills towards maintaining positive mental health and recovering from mental illness in sport, coaching practices that promote mental health, or the development, implementation, and / or evaluation of individual and system-level interventions to improve mental health outcomes in sport.
All papers must include a strong focus on translational research and practical applications.
