Sports Medicine (Auckland, N.z.) · 6 authors, 7 centres
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This is a correction notice for a scoping review on the psychology of athletic tapering. The correction fixes numerical errors in the reported participant demographics (total participants, athlete/coach breakdown, and gender distribution) and updates the corresponding Table 2. The corrected data show 1588 total participants (1548 athletes, 40 coaches), with 66% male and 31% female athletes, and 70% male and 15% female coaches.
**Background** This document is a correction notice for a previously published scoping review titled "The Psychology of Athletic Tapering in Sport: A Scoping Review" in Sports Medicine (DOI: 10.1007/s40279-022-01798-6). Following online publication, numerical errors were identified in paragraph 3 of the section entitled "3.2 Characteristics of Psychological Research Examining Taper" and in the corresponding Table 2. The correction provides the corrected text and updated table.
**Methods** The original article was corrected by updating the erroneous paragraph and Table 2. No new data collection or analysis was performed; this is a post-publication correction of reporting errors.
**Key Results** The corrected paragraph now reads: Most (92%) articles used an athlete sample (n=44), with only three articles examining coaches and one article examining both athletes and coaches. In total, the articles included 1588 participants. Of these participants, 1548 were athletes (97%) and 40 were coaches (3%). Of the athletes, 1026 were male (66%) and 475 were female (31%). Of the coaches, 28 were male (70%) and 6 were female (15%). Across four studies, the gender of 47 athletes and six coaches was not reported or made explicit (representing 3% and 15% of the respective total percentages).
The corrected Table 2 provides study characteristics of psychologically related taper research across multiple dimensions. Publication years ranged from 1989 to present, with the largest proportion (35%) published between 2013-2018. The most common journals were the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (both 13%). Quantitative designs dominated (79%), with longitudinal experiments with control groups and longitudinal field studies being the most common methodologies (both 23%). Athletes were the primary participants (92%), with swimming being the most studied sport (23%). Taper duration varied widely, with 7 days being the most common (21%). The Profile of Mood State was the most frequently used psychological measure (26%), followed by the Rating of Perceived Exertion (14%) and semi-structured interviews (10%).
**Clinical Implications** As a correction notice, this document does not present new clinical findings. However, accurate reporting of participant demographics is essential for interpreting the generalizability of research findings. The corrected data provide a more precise understanding of the participant composition in psychological tapering research, which is relevant for sports medicine practitioners and researchers working with athletes undergoing tapering protocols.