Author(s): Gagandeep Kaur

Abstract:
Initialization of research problem centered around subjective sleep quality and its correlation with cognitive stress and relativity with aerobic performance of an individual; Mumbai has been place of origin for many cricketers in India with Paris founding first Indian cricket club, samples for the research were cricketers (male) age between 17-25 with mean age of (19.9) and sample frame of( n=100 ).sleep quality index for cricketers was crucial with context of western geographical timeline to assess cumulative sleep quality in most M- types and N- types cricketers it was found cumulative value for sleep quality was 5.12 just above global cutoff score for PSQI(Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index)with difference of 0.12, stress was measured through K10 questionnaire Kessler Psychological Distress Scale to assess overall cognitive load that can be connective to acute sleep deprivation and sleep disturbances. Central Tendency Mean and Pearson Correlation Coefficient was was used for prognostication and data analysis. Mean stress values for cricketers were found out be 17, 46 with converted scale value of 3, 395 which indicated moderate stress values, it was also found cricketers sleeping early has lower chances of cognitive induced stress and procrastination and irregular diets. During assessment of aerobic performance tool used was Harvard Step Test (HST) with 30 centimeters step stool due to slightly lower height ratio value against original Flemish height spectrum, mean value for aerobic performance (vo2 max) for cricketers was found to be 61.21with converted scale of 7.78 which indicated low average vo2 max values in cricketers in Mumbai and Mumbai suburban area with mean age of 19.9.comparing mean values for sleep quality, stress and aerobic performance it was found that higher sleep quality will increase aerobic performance and decrease stress value in an individual with good sleep quality Correlational values for all three variables was measured through Pearson Correlation Coefficient (PCC), strength and direction of sleep and stress was found out to be 0.0296 which indicated weak positive correlation and for sleep and aerobic performance 0.1296 again indicated weak positive correlation. Higher sample frame can increase strength of correlation in future but study’s correlational values indicated relation between sleep with stress and sleep with aerobic performance for cricketers. After assessing subjective sleep quality and other 7 components which included subjective sleep quality, sleep onset, sleep duration, sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, sleep dysfunction. sleep medication which in most of the cases for M- type cricketers showed disoriented due lack of knowledge with sleep hygiene.

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