Sleep health and its association with performance and motivation in tactical athletes enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps
| Autor: | Thomas J. Balkin, Hyuk Oh, Bradley M. Ritland, Bradley D. Hatfield, Rodolphe J. Gentili, Xin He, Guido Simonelli, J. Carson Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Adolescent Universities media_common.quotation_subject Trail Making Test Excessive daytime sleepiness Athletic Performance Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine media_common Psychomotor learning Motivation Maryland Sleep quality business.industry Epworth Sleepiness Scale Cognition Military Personnel Athletes Physical therapy Female Observational study medicine.symptom Sleep business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Vigilance (psychology) |
| Zdroj: | Sleep Health. 5:309-314 |
| ISSN: | 2352-7218 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.sleh.2019.01.004 |
| Popis: | Objective To examine habitual sleep health and investigate how habitual sleep duration impacts performance and motivation in Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) tactical athletes. Design Observational. Setting A large, state university. Participants Fifty-four young tactical athletes enrolled in ROTC. Measurements Participants wore wrist actigraph devices and completed sleep diaries for 7 days prior to completing a cognitive/motor test battery. Results The mean objective total sleep time of the participants was 6.17 ± 0.69 hours, with only 7.4% of participants averaging ≥7 hours of sleep per day. A mean sleep quality rating between “Poor” and “Fair” was reported by 22.2% of participants. The mean Epworth Sleepiness Scale rating was 8.80 ± 3.24, with 27.8% of participants reporting scores >10. Controlling for age and gender, the average objective total sleep duration was significantly associated with performance on the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (P = .026) and with motivation levels to perform the cognitive/motor battery (P = .016), but not with performance on the Psychomotor Vigilance Test, Flanker task, Trail Making Test, or Standing Broad Jump. Conclusions ROTC tactical athletes habitually sleep less than the recommended 7 hours per day with roughly one-fourth reporting excessive daytime sleepiness and one-fifth reporting poor sleep quality, which may increase their risk for future adverse health outcomes. Longer sleep durations were associated with higher motivation levels and better cognitive processing speed performance; however, they were not associated with executive function, psychomotor vigilance, or broad jump performance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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