@article{ref1,
title="Snooze it or lose it: understanding sleep disturbance and injuries in soccer and basketball student-athletes",
journal="Clinical journal of sport medicine",
year="2024",
author="Owoeye, Oluwatoyosi B. A. and Breitbach, Anthony and Esposito, Flavio and Nguyen, Natania and Bender, Amy M. and Neme, Jamil R.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To assess the sleep characteristics of collegiate soccer and basketball student-athletes and explore the associations between sleep and injury risk. <br><br>DESIGN: Cohort study. SETTING: NCAA D1 and NAIA Tier 1. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred eighty-one collegiate soccer and basketball student-athletes (42% female; mean age: 20.0 ± 1.7 years). INDEPENDENT VARIABLES: Questionnaires were administered during the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 preseason, collecting demographic, injury history, medical history, and sleep information, including sleep difficulty category scores of 0 to 4 (none), 5 to 7 (mild), and ≥8 (moderate/severe) and other sleep disturbance measures derived from the Athlete Sleep Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ), including insufficient sleep duration (<7 hours of sleep) and poor subjective sleep quality. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: All-complaint knee and ankle injuries. <br><br>RESULTS: According to the ASSQ, 25.4% (95% confidence interval [CI], 17.9-34.3) of the student-athletes had mild sleep difficulty and 12.7% (95% CI, 7.3-20.1) had moderate/severe sleep difficulty. 36.1% (95% CI, 29.1-43.6) had insufficient sleep duration. 17.1% (95% CI, 11.7-23.7) were not satisfied with the quality of their sleep (poor sleep quality), and 13.8% (95% CI, 9.1-19.7) had an &quot;eveningness&quot; chronotype. Based on multivariable logistic regression models, student-athletes with poor sleep quality had significantly higher odds for injury (OR: 2.2, 95% CI, 1.04-4.79, P = 0.039). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Clinically relevant dysfunctional sleep patterns are prevalent among collegiate soccer and basketball student-athletes. Poor sleep quality was significantly associated with injury risk among student-athletes. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest a substantial sleep problem in collegiate soccer and basketball student-athletes and warrant that student-athletes are regularly screened and timely interventions applied.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1050-642X",
doi="10.1097/JSM.0000000000001250",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JSM.0000000000001250"
}