THE EFFECTS OF NAPPING ON WAKEFULNESS AND ENDURANCE PERFORMANCE IN ATHLETES: A RANDOMIZED CROSSOVER STUDY

Background: Athletes often experience poor sleep quality due to stress, altitude exposure, travel across different time zones, and pre-competition nervousness.Coaches use daytime naps to counteract the negative effects of fragmented nighttime sleep.Napping before competitions has also been used to enhance performance in athletes without sleep probl

An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study, of 93 children aged 1-4 years registered in 5 non-state daycare houses in Sueño neighborhood of Santiago de Cuba was carried out from January to May, 2017, with the objective of identifying the risk factors which influenced in the oral illnesses that they presented.To collect the information