An objective description of routine sleep habits in elite youth football players from the Middle-East
| Autor: | Mohd Firdaus Maasar, Valter Di Salvo, Lorenzo Lolli, Daniele Bonanno, Emmanuel Lopez, Warren Gregson, Marco Cardinale, Johannes Marthinussen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Gerontology Adolescent Football Psychological intervention Middle East 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans Medicine Child Football players biology business.industry Athletes Actigraphy General Medicine biology.organism_classification 030228 respiratory system Elite Tracking (education) Sleep (system call) Sleep business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Sleep Medicine. 80:96-99 |
| ISSN: | 1389-9457 |
| Popis: | Background and study objectives Adequate sleep is essential to support preparation and recovery processes for training and competition in athletes. A limited number of studies have examined whether adolescents from the Middle-East meet the minimum age-specific recommendations ranging from 8 to 9 h of night sleep based on objective measurements. This study aimed to provide an objective description of routine sleep habits in elite youth football players from the Middle-East. Methods Using wrist-worn actigraphy, we examined objective measures of sleep over a 14-day surveillance period from fifty-nine, male, Middle-Eastern elite youth football players (age range: 12.1 to 16 years). Results The observed median sleep duration was approximately 5.5 to 6 h during weekdays and 6.5 to 7.5 h over weekend days. Sleep intermissions resulting in two or more periods of sleep accounted for 8% and 17% of the data during weekdays and weekends, respectively. Conclusions For the first time, we reported an objective quantification of sleep measures indicating that elite youth athletes from the Middle-East do not meet the age-specific sleep recommendations. Integration of sleep tracking into the routine training monitoring process can be valuable to inform decisions relevant to the adoption of potential multidisciplinary interventions to address sleep insufficiency and disorders in youth athletes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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