The Impacts of Orally Delivered Sleep Intervention Techniques and Light Therapy on Sleep and Perceived Athletic Performance.
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Pace, Chloe
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2025-04-03
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This study aims to explore the relationship between exposure to orally delivered sleep
intervention techniques and light therapy, and their effects on an athlete's self-assessment of
sleep quality, as measured by a modified Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), as well as
athletic performance, assessed through the Athlete’s Subjective Sports Performance (ASSP)
questionnaire. Alterations in sleep and wake cycles have both physiological and psychological
impacts on individuals. Research shows that improved sleep can improve memory, cell growth,
and repair, and light therapy has been demonstrated to advance a human's endogenous 24-hour
biological clock, which is called the circadian rhythm (Walker, 2009; Elkhenany, AlOkda, El Badawy, and El-Badri, 2018). Important for both college athletes and athletic programs are
behavioral modifications that can lead to better sleep and athletic performance. The total duration
of this study will be two weeks. Data will be collected by having participants fill out a modified
(PSQI) and (ASSPQ) on day one of the study, on the seventh day of the study, and on day 14.
The control group will fill out the questionnaires on days 1, 7, and 14 and will not be subjected
to either sleep intervention techniques or light therapy. Our experimental groups will be as
follows. Experimental group one will be exposed to only orally delivered sleep intervention
techniques once per week. Experimental group two will receive only light therapy for 15 minutes
on 10 of the 14 days. Experimental group three will receive the combined treatment of orally
delivered sleep intervention techniques once per week and exposure to ten 15-minute light
therapy sessions. We hypothesize that athletes exposed to both orally delivered sleep
interventions and light therapy will have increased perceptions of both sleep and athletic
performance as compared to the control and experimental group one or two.