The level of sleep quality among Sukma Perlis athletes
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https://doi.org/10.37134/jsspj.vol14.1.2.2025Keywords:
Sleep quality, Sleep pattern, Athletes, GenderAbstract
Good sleep quality has been associated with improving emotional states, greater cognitive performance, faster healing time in damaged muscle tissues, and improved immune response. Most of the previous studies of athlete’s level of sleep quality have been done abroad but are limited locally. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to compare the level of sleep quality between male and female among SUKMA Perlis athletes. A total of 194 athletes of SUKMA Perlis participated in this study. The data were collected using a questionnaire based on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) to identify their level of sleep quality. The findings indicate that there were significant differences in mean of sleep quality between male (3.76 ± 2.168) and female (5.36 ± 3.603) among SUKMA Perlis athletes, with p = 0.001 < 0.05. Female athletes had poorer sleep quality compared to male athletes. In conclusion, during hormonal transition, caffeine intake and stress hormones can be the main factors of female athletes experience poor sleep quality. Aside from that, the importance of sports science knowledge including physiology, nutrition and psychology is crucial to having good quality of sleep among athletes.
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