CONNECTION BETWEEN SLEEP AND ATHLETICS

BACKGROUND INFO

• Goal: better undertanding of physcological influemce of sleep inn youth
• Open lable
• Inclusion: age 13-20, healthy, willing participation
• Informed consent by participant and parents
• Exclusion: arrhythmia, chronic illness, unwilling participation

PROTECTION

• Trials are approved by belmont review board
• The willowbrook study took advantage of vulnerable youth with out participant consent. Thus led to the IRBs .
• The IRBs are respect for person, beneficence, and justice.
• This study requires informed consent by the participant and their parent
• Participants are given analyzed data

STAGE 1

• Evaluate the sleep quality and performance over two weeks
• Fill out general health survey
• Wear heart monitor belt for two weeks while sleeping
• Personal sleep analysis will be given to the participant
• Standing, recovery, and waking heart rate will be recorded during athletic performance

STAGE 2

• Randomized into two groups. Group A will get 1-2h more sleep
• Group B will remain the same
• After two weeks the groups will switch
• Continued monitoring of injury, sleep, and porformance
• Continued use of heart monitor belt and survey before and after sleeping

STAKEHOLDERS

• Athletes/coaches: beneficence, no harm to atheletes with improvment
• Parents: justice, respect for persons, full discolsure and no coersion
• Docotors: beneficence, little harm with progress in science
• Participants: justice, respect for person, no tricks, all info is given

BENEFITS/ RISKS

• Better physiological knowledge of sleep in youth
• Improved performance by sleep programs for athletes
• Risks are not enough sleep

JUSTIFICATION

• Yes I would participate
• Full disclosure of all information
• Little or no risk to me
• Help advance me in my own sports