Exploring mental health symptoms in elite athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis on sex differences

• Liang-Tseng Kuo ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ LTK and SHLT contributed equally to this work as co-first authors.

  Affiliations Department of Sports Medicine, Landseed International Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5507-8396

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• Sung-Huang Laurent Tsai ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ LTK and SHLT contributed equally to this work as co-first authors.

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung Branch, Keelung, Taiwan

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• Udit Dave,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9950-6938

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• William A. Marmor,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8434-2088

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• Reena Olsen,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Sports Medicine Institute, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0012-1481

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• Bridget Jivanelli,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Kim Barrett Memorial Library, HSS Education Institute, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8707-4859

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• Michelle E. Kew,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sports Medicine Institute, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6189-0359

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• Daphne I. Ling

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wosohealth@gmail.com

  Affiliations Sports Medicine Institute, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4415-2471

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