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The Ministry of Health and NOCK launched the Kenya Sports Mental Health Observatory on October 10, 2025 (World Mental Health Day)—a real-time dashboard tracking anxiety, depression, burnout, and help-seeking among 10,000 registered athletes. Data is anonymized, aggregated, and used to guide policy: e.g., after detecting a 34% spike in pre-competition anxiety among U-18 girls, AK mandated puberty-sensitive coaching (News #208). You can’t manage what you don’t measure, said Dr. Amina Hassan. The Observatory partners with Lancet Psychiatry for global benchmarking. All federations must report quarterly.