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Background

Despite scientific evidence and interventions underlying the importance of sleep for cognitive skills, sport performance and injury prevention, this information does not seem to resonate with youth. Targeting the concept of vigilance and self-experiential learning may be a new way to open the discussion about the importance of sleep. Through VSSS 2017 & 2018, we learned that youth were able to identify vigilance fluctuations through behavioural and facial observations. However, little is known about their willingness to use this concept in the context of sport performance and injury prevention.

Summary

This year, we developed the academic back-end for 4/8 vigilance games originally created/adapted for the Wake-a-Thon, in addition to testing all games in a pilot-test run. Solidifying how the vigilance games may capture vigilance fluctuations, and their applicability in various settings outside the Wake-a-Thon (e.g. classroom, home, sports practice, concussion recovery). Our ultimate goal is to raise youth awareness about the importance of sleep on optimizing sport and academic performance, as well as injury prevention.