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Electronic copies of Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport Technical Reports2024-03-22T22:51:59ZAdvice For Athletes During Covid-19
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/32956
Title: Advice For Athletes During Covid-19
Author(s): Breslin, Gavin; Lowry, Ruth; Lafferty, Moira; Britton, Darren; Morris, Robert; Barker, Jamie; Slater, Matt; Eubank, Martin R
Abstract: This document aims to provide psychological support and guidance for athletes during the current Covid-19 pandemic. Since 23 March, lockdown in the United Kingdom has meant extreme changes and athletes have been forced to significantly alter their training and competition routines. These changes can lead to feelings of anxiety, frustration, and anger for some, and this guidance aims to help alleviate these emotions. The Covid-19 lockdown can be called a non-normative transition* (c.f.2) in sport, this means that it was unexpected and could not be prepared for. This can make it more difficult to manage, and have negative consequences for mental health and psychological wellbeing. This Covid-19 transition will be overwhelming for some – posing many questions around the uncertainty of how long the lockdown period will last, the effect of lockdown on long-term goals for training and competition, and further doubts about what the transition process of emerging from lockdown will look like. We will offer psychological advice to help you deal effectively with the Covid-19 transition, and to place you in a better position to deal with the psychological and behavioural challenges the current situation poses, regardless of when, and if, you return to sport. Three key priorities have been identified which have been shown to be critical for managing transitions, such as the Covid-19 transition.2020-05-29T00:00:00ZBeyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: Tips for Players and Athletes COVID-RECOVER
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Title: Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: Tips for Players and Athletes COVID-RECOVER
Author(s): MacIntyre, Tadhg; Brick, Noel; Butler, Clodagh; Doherty, Aisling; Lane, Andrew M; Morris, Robert; Murphy, Cassandra; Murphy, Eddie; Rogan, Martin
Abstract: First paragraph: The aim of this guidance is to provide a framework for athletes to cope, thrive and engage in personal growth during the current pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has likely led to wide-scale disruption of your sporting trajectories for 2020. This has included the cancellation or postponement of sporting events, limits to group training due to social distancing, restrictions on use of sporting facilities and loss of face-to-face access to coaches and support personnel. In the context of a threat to public health, arguably sports competition sinks into lesser importance, but for athletes like you, for whom sport is a fulltime job or major life goal, or for those who identify sports competition as a key part of their identity, it is important to share recommendations based on evidence and theory on how to support athletes and players through this time. The unprecedented situation means that evidence from similar or related contexts and relevant theories needs to be used to extrapolate to COVID-19 and all its challenges. Each of the guidelines below should be viewed like a menu to choose from and try, test and review, and be seen as a road to discovery instead of passive prescription of activities. Our team of practitioners and researchers have collated the knowledge below based on four premises: 1. Psychological Strengths: As a performer on the sporting stage, you have, in all likelihood, developed many skills and habits to support your on-field performance. Pre-performance routines for penalty taking, for example, may include relaxation and focusing components which aid emotional regulation. This can be also applied to help you cope in world outside of sport (i.e. outside the bubble). Awareness of your repertoire of psychological skills and the ability to use them across different contexts is highly important. 2. Resilience: The capacity to mobilise resources both in advance and after a major challenge, is developed through our sporting challenges. In the face of a trauma, it is likely that resilience is the default rather than the exception. As an athlete, you have the ability to respond in an optimistic way to major stressors and engage in post-traumatic growth. Further, you have successful experiences from memory to call upon on which By doing this, you build a firm foundation on which to build your beliefs that you have sufficient resources to cope with COVID-19. 3. Individual Responses: It is important to acknowledge that athletes in different sports and at different levels of competition have developed diverse sets of abilities and competencies. Dual-career athletes (e.g. student-athletes) may have invested much of their effort in their sport despite study or work commitments, and injured athletes may be over-identifying with their sport as a predictable response to injury, in both cases making these athletes very vulnerable to major stressors. 4. Perception of Control: Loss of control is a major source of anxiety in a pandemic (see Mansell, 2020). Developing autonomy and a sense of control is a key part to feeling safe and secure. With COVID-19, the new habits that could help protect you such as physical isolation, hand hygiene, and avoiding touching your face can help you gain control in an uncertain world. And finding new ways to exercise, to work and to interact can open up a world of exciting possibilities. Athletes have shown an ability to develop positive habits and maintain self-control, skills transferable to meeting the present challenging circumstances.2020-05-19T00:00:00ZSupporting Youth Athletes During Covid-19
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/32954
Title: Supporting Youth Athletes During Covid-19
Author(s): Lafferty, Moira; Breslin, Gavin; Britton, Darren; Butt, Joanne; Lowry, Ruth; Morris, Robert; Barker, Jamie; Slater, Matt; Eubank, Martin R
Abstract: This document aims to provide psychological guidance for parents and guardians of youth athletes during the current Covid-19 pandemic. Since lockdown (on 23 March 2020), and the subsequent emergence from lockdown in the United Kingdom (UK), youth athletes have been forced to significantly change their training, with the cancellation of formal training sessions and reintegration with social distancing. Throughout this time competitive sport was suspended, and in this transition phase, it is still unclear when all competitions will commence. These changes for some can lead to feelings of anxiety, frustration, and uncertainty. We offer psychological guidance to help parents and guardians maintain their own wellbeing, and support their children in their return to competitive sport. Three key priorities have been identified as critical for supporting youth athletes in managing the Covid-19 transition. These include: 1. Self-management for parents and guardians 2. Navigating uncertainty 3. Motivation and goal setting2020-07-09T00:00:00ZMyeloma Nursing Competency Framework
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Title: Myeloma Nursing Competency Framework
Author(s): Low, Eric; Perkins, Sue; Lobban, Lois; Behrens, Judith; Smith, Alastair; Blair, Susan; Deppe, Sophie; Tonkin, Joanne; Cruickshank, Susanne
Abstract: The Myeloma Nursing Competency Framework has been developed to enable nurses at all levels to demonstrate that they are equipped with the knowledge, skills, behaviours and competencies required to deliver the highest quality of treatment, management and care to all myeloma patients and their families in the UK. Available from the Myeloma Academy: https://academy.myeloma.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/Myeloma-Academy-Competency-framework-Jan15-RCN.pdf2015-04-01T00:00:00Z