Rao, Ashwin L, et al. “Suicide in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Athletes: A 9-Year Analysis of the NCAA Resolutions Database.” Sports Health, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2015, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4547116/#:~:text=The%20annual%20incidence%20of%20suicide,3.7%3B%20P%20%3C%200.01).
Main Ideas: The author is a co-author of the textbook, "Mental Health in the Athlete - Modern Perspectives and Novel Challenges for the Sports Medicine Provider."
The author gives support by showing how males struggle more with mental health than females. He also says that football is the sport that struggles the most out of any of the sports. He gives information surrounding signs and symptoms of mental health to try and put and end to the stigma.
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"The annual incidence of suicide in male athletes was 1.35/100,000 and in female athletes was 0.37/100,000 (relative risk [RR], 3.7; P < 0.01)" (Rao).
"The greatest number of cases was reported among football athletes (n = 13), followed by soccer (n = 5), track/cross-country (n = 5), baseball (n = 4), and swimming (n = 3)" (Rao).
"Twenty-nine cases of suicide occurred in male athletes, accounting for 82.9% of total cases, compared with 6 cases in female athletes (17.1%). The rate of suicide in male athletes was significantly higher compared with female athletes " (Rao).
Points of argument: The reason I will be using this source is it goes over both points of arguments for my research paper. It covers male suicide numbers being higher than female and gives data surrounding mental health numbers in student athletes. This source provides reliable numbers for both points of argument and has a credible author.
Credibility: The article gives us information surrounding suicide numbers in athletes. It gives us data around the mental health numbers surrounding athletes whether they're male or female, sport, and age that sees the most struggle. The author Ashwin L. Rao is a credible author as well, as he does a lot of his work surrounding mental health around athletes and is a co-author of a book surrounding the topic.