Sleepiness in retired male boxers: daytime sleepiness and its relationship with impulsiveness and depression symptomatology in retired professional male boxers.
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| Title: | Sleepiness in retired male boxers: daytime sleepiness and its relationship with impulsiveness and depression symptomatology in retired professional male boxers. |
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| Authors: | Esagoff, Aaron I., Shaw, Jacob S., Bray, Michael J.C, Raj, Divyaansh, Vankara, Ashish, Narapareddy, Bharat R., Bernick, Charles B., Peters, Matthew E. |
| Source: | International Review of Psychiatry. May2024, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p243-253. 11p. |
| Subjects: | Mental depression risk factors, Boxing, Risk assessment, Contact sports, Boxing injuries, Retirement, Questionnaires, Professional athletes, Hypersomnia, Descriptive statistics, Impulsive personality, Neuropsychology, Quality of life, Confidence intervals, Drowsiness, Brain injuries, Psychosocial factors, Disease complications |
| Abstract: | Background: Boxing exposes fighters to head impacts and potential traumatic brain injury (TBI). Though research has explored the neuropsychiatric consequences of contact sports, there is limited research into Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS) and its relationship to other outcomes, such as impulsiveness and depression. Therefore, this study aimed to describe EDS in retired boxers using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and to examine how boxing and sleepiness relate to impulsiveness and depression symptomatology. Methods: 86 male retired professional boxers from the Professional Fighters Brain Health Study (PFBHS) met the inclusion criteria. Adjusted multivariable models analyzed relationships between professional boxing bouts, EDS (ESS), impulsiveness (Barratt Impulsiveness Scale Version 11 (BIS-11)), and/or depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)). A causal mediation analysis was performed to assess whether boxing bouts and ESS scores predicted BIS-11 and PHQ-9 scores. Results: Mean age was ∼51 years, fighters averaged ∼36 professional bouts, and ESS mean(SD) was 7.5(5.3). ESS scores were significantly associated with raw BIS-11 (Beta = 1.26, 95%CI = 0.77–1.75, p < 0.001) and ordinal PHQ-9 (OR = 1.20, 95%CI = 1.11–1.31, p < 0.001) scores in adjusted models, and the significant relationship between boxing bouts and BIS-11/PHQ-9 was mediated by ESS. Conclusions: EDS in retired male professional boxers may be strongly associated with other neuropsychiatric sequelae of TBI (impulsiveness and depression). Sleepiness; sleep; boxing; contact sports; impulsiveness; impulsivity; depression; Epworth sleepiness scale box [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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