Relationship Between Modality-specific Dual-task Performance and Immersive Exergaming Outcomes in Healthy Athletes
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sponsor
- Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Enrollment
- 60
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Cognitive dual-task cost
Overview
Brief Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to provide a more specific understanding of which dual task conditions elicit changes in either motor or cognitive performance. A dual-task is a simultaneously performed motor and cognitive task. Exergaming describes physically active gaming. The main questions the study aims to answer are:
- Can performance in visual and auditory dual-task paradigms explain performance in an immersive exergaming task in healthy athletes?
- How are exergaming scores associated with athletic performance tests?
- What biomechanical movement patterns are shown during dual-tasks? Researchers will also compare performance of those experienced with jumping and those inexperienced with jumping.
Participants will:
- Complete two sessions performing athletic performance tests, cognitive tasks, and different dual-tasks while their movement pattern is recorded
- Complete questionnaires on load, stress, and sleep during the sessions
Detailed Description
The two sessions last each approximately 2 hours and take place within one to 12 weeks. Both sessions involve measurement of biomechanical movement patterns with motion capture.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Basic Science
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 34 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •age between 18 and 34 years
- •self-reported recreationally or competitively active (more than 2 hours per week)
- •self-reported ability to complete change of direction, balancing, and jumping tasks
- •capacity to sign informed consent
- •ability to understand German
Exclusion Criteria
- •acute injury in the last 6 months resulting in missing more than 3 training sessions
- •severe comorbidity or condition which would prohibit performance of the lsted testing tasks
- •self-reported pregnancy
Arms & Interventions
Dual-Task paradigms
All participants are exposed to the same dual-task paradigms described in the intervention.
Intervention: different dual-task paradigms (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Cognitive dual-task cost
Time Frame: Measurement session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (days 6-90)
Dual-task cost with the different modalities are operationalized by reaction time.
Exergaming performance
Time Frame: Session 2 (days 6-90)
Operationalized as task success rate
Secondary Outcomes
- Motor dual-task cost(Session 1 (day 0))
- Countermovement Jump(Session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (day 6-90))
- ProAgility Test(Session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (day 6-90))
- Y-Balance Test(Session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (days 6-90))
- Joint Angle(Session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (day 6-90))
- Joint Moment(Session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (day 6-90))
- Ground Reaction Force(Session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (day 6-90))
- Center of pressure(Session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (day 6-90))
Investigators
Michelle C. Haas
Principal Investigator
Zurich University of Applied Sciences