Defining Health Promoting Sports Coaches: a systematic review

Background: Application of this settings-based approach in sports clubs highlight the potential coaches' contribution in physical, mental and social health of participants, thank's to the informal educational nature of sport.Purpose: The aims of this study are to identify coaches' HP skills, key format and content for coaches HP education, leverage and barriers for HP coaches' practices with a holistic health and pragmatic approach to educate coaches HP empowerment. Methods: This systematic review' began on October 2023 on 6 databased and over time frame between 1984 and 2023, based on PRISMA-P guidelines and recorded on PROSPERO.Results: While they lack resources allowing them to develop HP practices, the results of this study highlight coaches as role model by using trust relationship and communication strategies allow us to develop and maintain participants' life skills. Furthermore, although there are various tools allowing them to increase their knowledge and skills, coaches find themselves confronted with difficulties in the application of these as well as in finding themselves in the role of mentor. In this line, while they ask to develop health literacy, cognitive and application skills, it seems essential to use training programmes to guide and educate coaches and foster their experiences.Conclusions: Coaches have a non negligeable role in participants' life and health development and must be support in their communication, pedagogical and cognitive skills with experience develop by training. Practical implications: Setting-based approach in SC should consider coaches as an identification leverage of health problematics with multiples actions possibilities to promote health if they are correctly educate and guide in this view.Funding: A paternship between Santé Publique France, Université de Lorraine and Université Côte d'Azur allowed and supported this work.