Longitudinal assessment of objective sleep and power output in Division I collegiate baseball athletes.

IF 3.4 2区医学 Q2 CLINICAL NEUROLOGY

Sleep Health Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI:10.1016/j.sleh.2024.12.009

Jeremy A Bigalke, Katherine M Lee, Jennifer R Bigalke, Michael K Scullin, Andrew R Gallucci, Jason R Carter

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Abstract

Objectives: Many college athletes experience insufficient sleep due to athletic, academic, and social constraints. While prior studies have observed cross-sectional associations between poor sleep and performance in athletes, few studies have longitudinally assessed performance variations in relation to sleep measures. We investigated whether objectively measured sleep assessments were associated with peak power output improvements during a fall season of Division I collegiate baseball players.

Methods: Peak power output was assessed weekly for 12weeks in 24 male collegiate baseball players (age: 21±1years). Objective sleep (Oura ring) was assessed over the final 6weeks to determine total sleep time, sleep efficiency, and other assessments of sleep quality, including the proportion of nights in which athletes maintained total sleep time ≥7 hours or sleep efficiency ≥90%. Bivariate correlations between sleep measures and peak power output were performed.

Results: Greater improvements in peak power output throughout the fall season were associated with higher total sleep time (r=0.429, p=.036), higher sleep efficiency (r=0.411, p=.046), and fewer nighttime awakenings (r=-0.495, p=.014). Furthermore, the rate of change in peak power output was associated with the proportion of nights in which athletes maintained total sleep time ≥7 hours (r=0.557, p=.005) or sleep efficiency ≥90% (r=0.509, p=.011).

Conclusions: These findings support an association between adequate sleep duration, quality, and consistency in training season performance trajectories in college athletes.

Data availability: Data will be made available upon reasonable request by the corresponding author.

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Sleep Health CLINICAL NEUROLOGY-

CiteScore

6.30

自引率

9.80%

发文量

114

审稿时长

54 days

期刊介绍： Sleep Health Journal of the National Sleep Foundation is a multidisciplinary journal that explores sleep''s role in population health and elucidates the social science perspective on sleep and health. Aligned with the National Sleep Foundation''s global authoritative, evidence-based voice for sleep health, the journal serves as the foremost publication for manuscripts that advance the sleep health of all members of society.The scope of the journal extends across diverse sleep-related fields, including anthropology, education, health services research, human development, international health, law, mental health, nursing, nutrition, psychology, public health, public policy, fatigue management, transportation, social work, and sociology. The journal welcomes original research articles, review articles, brief reports, special articles, letters to the editor, editorials, and commentaries.