Journal article
Sleep interventions for performance, mood and sleep outcomes in athletes: A systematic review and meta-analysis
K Gwyther, S Rice, R Purcell, V Pilkington, O Santesteban-Echarri, A Bailey, CC Walton
Psychology of Sport and Exercise | Elsevier | Published : 2022
Abstract
Sleep is fundamental to sports performance and other health outcomes such as mental wellbeing. This systematic review explored the effects of sleep interventions implemented among athletes on performance, sleep, and mood outcomes. Five databases were searched, returning 5996 records for screening. Of these, 27 articles met the inclusion criteria (16 controlled deigns, 11 uncontrolled; athletes n = 617; male n = 432, female n = 93, non-binary/other n = 0 or not reported n = 92). Narrative synthesis of all studies based on intervention type suggested that sleep hygiene, assisted sleep, and sleep extension interventions may be associated with improved sleep, performance, and mood outcomes. Twel..
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Awarded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Funding Acknowledgements
Courtney Walton is supported by a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Melbourne (MCK2020292). Simon Rice is supported by a Career Development Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (APP1158881), and the Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne. Olga Santesteban-Echarri is supported by a Canadian Institutes Health Research Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MFE-158067). The disclosed funding is not directly linked to this project and in no way influenced study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, writing of the report, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.