Association of mental health help-seeking with mental health-related knowledge and stigma in Japan Rugby Top League players

• Yasutaka Ojio ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yasutaka Ojio, Asami Matsunaga

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ojio@ncnp.go.jp

  Affiliation Department of Community Mental Health & Law, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9660-206X

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• Asami Matsunaga ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yasutaka Ojio, Asami Matsunaga

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Mental Health & Law, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8375-0146

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• Sosei Yamaguchi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Mental Health & Law, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan

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• Kensuke Hatakeyama,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Japan Rugby Players’ Association, Japan

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• Shin Kawamura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Japan Rugby Players’ Association, Japan

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• Goro Yoshitani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Japan Rugby Players’ Association, Japan

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• Masanori Horiguchi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Japan Rugby Players’ Association, Japan

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• Shun Nakajima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Research, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan

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• Ayako Kanie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Research, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masaru Horikoshi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Research, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan

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• Chiyo Fujii

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Mental Health & Law, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan

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