Prevalence of poor sleep quality in athletes before competition

Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate athletes sleep quality before competition and its relationship with age, gender, sport modality, competitive level, competition result, and practice time.Methods The sample was 1010 Brazilian athletes (656 men and 354 women; 511 young and 499 adults), with an age of 20 ± 7 years old. Participants answered the question ‘How would you evaluate the quality of your sleep in the past few days?’...