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Article History

Accepted: 3 November 2021

First Online: 18 November 2021

Declarations

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: The project team received “UK Rugby Health—SRIF RCRG project” funding from Auckland University of Technology for NZ$15,000 via Professor Patria Hume, and from the Wolfson Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University, for £4,400 via Dr Karen Hind.

: Karen Hind, Natalie Konerth, Ian Entwistle, Paul Chazot, Doug King, Gwyn Lewis, Marianna Bottiglieri, Alice Theadom, Thomas Goodbourn, Paula Riegas-Ferraces, Amanda Ellison and Patria Hume declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

: This study was approved by the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences Ethics Sub-Committee at Durham University and the School of Sport Ethics Sub-Committee at Leeds Beckett University.

: All participants provided informed consent prior to completing the study procedures.

: The authors confirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the data presented in this study.

: The general health questionnaire and the datasets generated during the current study are not publicly available but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

: Data are not publicly available. Code used for study analyses may be made available upon reasonable request to the corresponding author.

: According to the definition given by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the authors listed qualify for authorship on the basis of making one or more of the substantial contributions to the intellectual content of the article. Dr KH was responsible for designing and leading the <i>UK Rugby Health</i> project, helped adapt the <i>NZ RugbyHealth</i> General Health Questionnaire, helped obtained ethical approval, helped recruit participants, helped analyse data, provided interpretation of results, and wrote the full first draft of the manuscript. IE helped adapt the questionnaire, helped obtain ethical approval, coordinated all data collection, helped recruit participants and co-authored the manuscript. NK provided statistical input, helped analyse the data and co-authored the article. Professor PH collaborated in designing the project, provided input from the <i>NZ RugbyHealth</i> project, shared the <i>NZ RugbyHealth</i> General Health Questionnaire, and contributed to writing the article. Associate Professor GL, and Professor AT helped develop the <i>NZ RugbyHealth</i> General Health Questionnaire, provided interpretation of the results, and co-authored the article. Associate Professor PC provided interpretation of the results and co-authored the article. Dr DK, MB, PR-F, TG and Professor AE co-authored the article. All authors take responsibility for the paper.