Intervention study using a leaflet entitled ‘three benefits of 'go to bed early! get up early! and intake nutritionally rich breakfast!' a message for athletes’ to improve the soccer performance of university soccer team
| Autor: | Kai Wada, Teruki Noji, Tetsuo Harada, Hitomi Takeuchi, Fujiko Tsuji, Takahiro Kawada, Milada Krejci, Miyo Nakade |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
biology Sleep quality Physiology Athletes business.industry 030229 sport sciences biology.organism_classification Mental health Intervention studies Computer game 03 medical and health sciences Health psychology 0302 clinical medicine Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Neurology Physiology (medical) Intervention (counseling) Physical therapy Medicine Sleep diary business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Sleep and Biological Rhythms. 14:65-74 |
| ISSN: | 1479-8425 1446-9235 |
| Popis: | A new educational material was created for athletes. It was focused on three benefits of a morning-typed lifestyle and actual strategies for promoting this lifestyle. The material is a leaflet entitled, “Three benefits from going to bed early, getting up early and taking nutritionally rich breakfast. Message to athletes!” This study tried to evaluate the educational efficacy of a month-long intervention using this leaflet on Japanese university soccer team members. Eighty-four members of university soccer team were asked to participate in a month-long intervention from mid-November, 2011. Just before and 3 months after the intervention period, an anonymous integrated questionnaire was administered to participants. Another questionnaire including questions on the change in soccer performance was administered at the middle and the end of intervention month. Responses were received from more than 95 % of the soccer team members. The participants just after the intervention tend to show higher quality of sleep (p = 0.020) and lower frequency of irritation (p = 0.006) than those before the intervention. Analysis on the sleep diary including questions on the implementation of 8 issues as contents of the leaflet showed that the sleep latency and sleep quality at nights when participants used computer game, was longer (p |
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