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A sleep education programme helps young archers sleep better

1 study · 13 archers measured

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There is one study on the question: an Indian pilot on fifteen adolescent archers who lived and trained at an army sports institute, followed through a year of sleep education with no control group. The intervention bundled many things together, from sleep hygiene sessions with athletes and coaches to training that never ran into the evening, and from phones handed in at night to darker, quieter rooms. Among the thirteen who repeated the questionnaire, on weekdays they fall asleep in 15 minutes rather than 28 (p = 0.008), and this was the study's primary outcome. The rest moves little or not at all: weekday sleep goes from 6 hours 27 to 6 hours 37 (p = 0.492), weekend sleep from 8 hours 39 to 9 hours 25 without reaching significance (p = 0.059), and daytime sleepiness and naps stay the same. Over the same year the weekday alarm moved half an hour earlier, to 4:59, while bedtime stayed the same, which leaves little room for more sleep. The study therefore points two ways within itself, and all the figures come from a questionnaire filled in by the teenagers themselves.

Also phrased as: "sleep hygiene for young archers"; "sleep education in youth sport"; "sleeping better with sleep hygiene"; "phones off at night and athletes' sleep"; "sleep in adolescent archers"

In practice

In centres where teenagers train and go to school, the usual line is that explaining how to sleep, taking their phones away in the evening and sending them to bed early is enough for them to rest better.

Evidence

  • 2019
    For Archers Published later

    Fifteen male archers aged 14 to 18, thirteen at the final questionnaire: after a year of sleep education, weekday time to fall asleep drops from 28 minutes (95% CI 21.35-34.65) to 15 (7.75-22.25), p = 0.008, d = 1.08; at weekends from 19 to 16 minutes, p = 0.589. This was the primary outcome. In the discussion the same result appears as p = 0.005 with an effect size of 2.174, and the comparison uses a test for independent groups on people who were the same.

    Sleep Pattern and Sports Performance of Adolescent Archers: A Pre–Post-intervention Pilot Study · Chandra Sekara Guru, Karuna Datta, Anup Krishnan, Anuj Kumar, Uma Mahajan, Sunil Jhajharia, Manoj Kumar, Amit Kumar, Narendra Yadav, Amar Singh

  • 2019
    Against Archers Published later

    Hours of sleep do not change significantly: weekdays from 6 hours 27 to 6 hours 37 (p = 0.492), weekends from 8 hours 39 to 9 hours 25 (p = 0.059). Bedtime does not move either (weekdays 22:27 and 22:22, p = 0.529; weekends 23:38 and 23:15, p = 0.106), while the weekday alarm moves 29 minutes earlier, from 5:28 to 4:59 (p < 0.0001, d = 3.31). Duration is worked out as the gap between wake-up time and bedtime, so it takes no account of the time needed to fall asleep. In the table, moreover, the mean times before the intervention (bed at 22:27, up at 5:28) would give about seven hours of sleep rather than 6 hours 27, while those after it match the 6 hours 37: the starting point itself is uncertain.

    Sleep Pattern and Sports Performance of Adolescent Archers: A Pre–Post-intervention Pilot Study · Chandra Sekara Guru, Karuna Datta, Anup Krishnan, Anuj Kumar, Uma Mahajan, Sunil Jhajharia, Manoj Kumar, Amit Kumar, Narendra Yadav, Amar Singh

  • 2019
    Against Archers Published later

    Daytime sleepiness and naps do not change with the intervention: p = 0.488 and p = 0.943 on Pearson's chi-square test.

    Sleep Pattern and Sports Performance of Adolescent Archers: A Pre–Post-intervention Pilot Study · Chandra Sekara Guru, Karuna Datta, Anup Krishnan, Anuj Kumar, Uma Mahajan, Sunil Jhajharia, Manoj Kumar, Amit Kumar, Narendra Yadav, Amar Singh

Status history

  1. 1990 Not studied No study in the registry's bibliography measures archers' sleep before and after a sleep education programme: the question has not yet been asked.
  2. 2019 Contested An Indian pilot study arrives: fifteen adolescent archers at an army sports institute, thirteen to the end, followed through a year of sleep education with no control group. On weekdays the time taken to fall asleep nearly halves, from 28 to 15 minutes (p = 0.008). Total sleep does not change significantly, though, neither on weekdays (from 6 hours 27 to 6 hours 37) nor at weekends, and daytime sleepiness and naps stay the same too, while the weekday alarm moves half an hour earlier. There is one study, but its measures point two ways: contested.

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APA

Campagna, M. (2026). A sleep education programme helps young archers sleep better (Version 2). In Evidence Registry. Retrieved 16 October 2026, from https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/sleep-education-young-archers

BibTeX
@misc{campagna2026_educazionesonnodormiremeglio,
  author = {Campagna, Matteo},
  title = {A sleep education programme helps young archers sleep better},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Evidence Registry, matteocampagna.com},
  url = {https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/sleep-education-young-archers},
  note = {Version 2; accessed 2026-10-16}
}

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