Designing culturally competent demographic questionnaires for mental health literacy research in semi-elite women’s rugby

Mental health literacy enhancing strategies require designers to be aware and understanding of diverse cultures to facilitate communication. The development of such interventions requires careful demographic data collection on protected characteristics to understand which individuals are most impacted by mental health symptoms and disorders and how information can be optimally delivered to them. This study examined a systematic approach to develop a demographic questionnaire for a study on mental health literacy amongst semi-elite women rugby players