Gooderick, J., Wood, T., Abbott, W., Clash, R., Hayes, M. and Maxwell, N. (2024) Can sleep hygiene interventions affect strength and power outcomes for female athletes? Sport Sciences for Health, 21 (1). pp. 205-215. ISSN 1825-1234
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Abstract
Improved sleep can enhance sprint, endurance, and sports-specific skills; however, it is yet to be investigated whether improved sleep indices could enhance strength and power performance. Sleep hygiene (SH) is growing in popularity as a tool to enhance sleep indices amongst athletic cohorts, yet the optimal delivery strategy of sleep hygiene education is yet to be determined. Using a randomised, controlled design with repeated measures, this study recruited 34 female footballers playing in WSL or WSL academy league. Participants were split into 3 groups: one receiving both group-based and individualised sleep hygiene education, one receiving only group-based SH education and a control group receiving no education. Monitoring of sleep (actigraphy, diaries) and physical performance (countermovement jump, isometric mid-thigh pull) was carried out at week 1, week 4 and week 7. Split-plot ANOVAs were used to assess for differences between groups × weeks, and groups × time. Individualised sleep hygiene education resulted in significantly improved sleep duration (p = 0.005), latency (p = 0.006) and efficiency (p = 0.004) at week 7 compared to controls, whilst also resulting in significantly improved countermovement jump scores (p = 0.001) compared to control. Results of this study suggest that jump performance may be affected by sleep factors, and that individualised SH may be superior to group-based SH, providing information to coaches regarding training optimisation and the efficacy of SH education methods.
Publication Type: | Articles |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | countermovement jump, female athletes, sleep hygiene, sleep, strength |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV201 Physical education and training G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV557 Sports G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV557 Sports > GV711 Coaching R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
Divisions: | Academic Areas > Institute of Sport Research Entities > Centre for Health and Allied Sport and Exercise Science Research (CHASER) |
SWORD Depositor: | Publications Router Jisc |
Depositing User: | Publications Router Jisc |
Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2025 09:22 |
Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2025 09:22 |
URI: | https://eprints.chi.ac.uk/id/eprint/8027 |