The influence of light and physical activity on the timing and duration of sleep: insights from a natural model of dance training in shifts

Estevan Debat, Ignacio Miguel - Coirolo del Río, Natalia Cristina - Tassino, Bettina - Silva Barbato, Ana Celia

Resumen:

Environmental, social, and behavioral variables influence sleep timing and duration. Using wrist-worn accelerometers, we recorded 31 dancers (age = 22.6 ± 3.5) for 17 days and who trained either in the morning (n = 15) or in the late evening (n = 16). We estimated the dancers’ daily sleep pattern: onset, end, and duration. In addition, their minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and mean light illuminance were also calculated daily and for the morning-shift and late-evening-shift time windows. On training days, the shifts involved differences in sleep timing, alarm-driven waking frequency, and the pattern of light exposure and MVPA duration. Sleep was strongly advanced when dancers trained in the morning and when alarms were used, while morning light had a low influence. Sleep was delayed when dancers were more exposed to light and displayed longer MVPA during the late evening. Sleep duration was strongly reduced on weekends and when alarms were used. A small reduction in sleep duration was also observed when morning illuminance was lower or when late evening MVPA was longer. Training in shifts influenced the timing of environmental and behavioral factors, which added up to shape dancers’ sleep timing and duration.


Detalles Bibliográficos
2023
CSIC: I+D_2018_92
Accelerometry
Educational shifts
Illuminance
Physical activity
Sleep
Inglés
Universidad de la República
COLIBRI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/43272
Acceso abierto
Licencia Creative Commons Atribución (CC - By 4.0)