Gender differences in sleep patterns and sleep complaints of elite athletes
OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed to investigate the gender differences for sleep complaints, patterns and disorders of elite athletes during preparation for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. METHODS: The study included 146 athletes from the Brazilian Olympic Team (male: n=86; 59%; female: n=60; 41%). Th...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da UFMG |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/43618 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://doi.org/10.5935/1984-0063.20190084 http://hdl.handle.net/1843/43618 https://orcid.org/ 0000-0001-8155-4723 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6863-8252 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3580-7037 https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-6928-8917 https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-5391-9825 https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-4012-4951 https://orcid.org/ 0000-0001-5652-7096 https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-5523-570X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3896-2208 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Sleep Athletes Sports Sleep Disorders Gender Sono Atletas Esportes Distúrbios do sono Gênero e saúde |
| Resumo: | OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed to investigate the gender differences for sleep complaints, patterns and disorders of elite athletes during preparation for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. METHODS: The study included 146 athletes from the Brazilian Olympic Team (male: n=86; 59%; female: n=60; 41%). The assessment of the Olympic athletes’ sleep took place in 2015, during the preparation period for the Rio Olympic Games. The athletes underwent a single polysomnography (PSG) evaluation. Sleep specialists evaluated the athletes and asked about their sleep complaints during a clinical consultation. In this evaluation week, the athletes did not take part in any training or competitions. RESULTS: The prevalence of sleep complaints was 53% of the athletes during the medical consultation, the most prevalent being insufficient sleep/waking up tired (32%), followed by snoring (21%) and insomnia (19.2%). In relation to the sleep pattern findings, the men had significantly higher sleep latency and wake after sleep onset than the women (p=0.004 and p=0.002, respectively). The sleep efficiency and sleep stages revealed that men had a lower percentage of sleep efficiency and slow wave sleep than the women (p=0.001 and p=0.05, respectively). CONCLUSION: Most athletes reported some sleep complaints, with men reporting more sleep complaints than women in the clinical evaluation. The PSG showed that 36% of all athletes had a sleep disorder with a greater reduction in sleep quality in men than in women. |
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