The Cognitive Functioning of Young Athletes Including Bioelectrical Brain Function

Completed

• Conditions: Cognitive Function
• Interventions: Other: No intervention

• Registration Number: NCT04753047
• Lead Sponsor: University of Gdansk

Brief Summary

The project focuses on two central issues:

1. The impact of intensity of sport on the cognitive functioning and brain waves of children in late childhood (10-12 years old);

2. The specific impact of individual forms of sporting competitions classified according to dynamic, static components as well as closed / open skill exercise. The variables will be age, gender, and fluid intelligence. Additionally, children's temperament will be examined in order to assess its relationship with the preferences for choosing a particular type of sport activity and the intensity of this activity.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-01-02
• Study First Submitted: 2021-01-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-02-09
• Study First Posted: 2021-02-12
• Primary Completion: 2022-01-02
• Study Completion: 2022-01-02
• Status Verified: 2022-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-04-19
• Last Update Posted: 2022-04-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 179

Inclusion Criteria

• Polish-speaking children

Exclusion Criteria

• mental illness;
• non-Polish speaking children

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Children practicing football	No intervention	Children in late childhood (age 10-12 years) practicing sport, which is high dynamic (\> 75%), and low static (\<10\&) and in the same time it is open skill exercise sport (football)
Children practicing gymnastics	No intervention	Children in late childhood (age 10-12 years) practicing sport, which is low dynamic (\<50%), high static (\>30%) and in the same time it is closed skill exercise sport (sport gymnastics)
Comparative group	No intervention	A comparative group of children that do not attend sport classes or sports clubs, but carrying out sports activity and / or in other areas

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Brain Waves	Baseline	- EEG Biofeedback - bioelectric recording of brain activity from a centrally placed electrode to measure fast brainwaves (Alpha, Beta1, Beta2) and slow brainwaves (Delta, Theta)
Language functions	Baseline	- PU1 Battery (Borkowska, SajewiczRadtke, Lipowska, Kalka, 2016). Higher score means better language functions.
Attention	Baseline	- PU1 Battery (Borkowska, SajewiczRadtke, Lipowska, Kalka, 2016) - attention (the ability to orientate on stimulus, motor speed, maintain attention on the visual stimulus, distinguishing significant and non-significant material). Higher score means better attention.
Short-term memory of verbal material material	Baseline	- PU1 Battery (Borkowska, SajewiczRadtke, Lipowska, Kalka, 2016). Higher score means better short-term memory of verbal material
Visual-spatial material	Baseline	- PU1 Battery (Borkowska, SajewiczRadtke, Lipowska, Kalka, 2016). Higher score means better visual-spatial material.
Executive functions	Baseline	- PU1 Battery (Borkowska, SajewiczRadtke, Lipowska, Kalka, 2016). Higher score means better executive functions.
Episodic memory of visual-spatial material	Baseline	- Diagnosis of Brain Injury (DUM) (Weidlich, Lamberti, 1996) \[assessment of episodic memory of visual-spatial material (the rate of acquiring new information, the process of consolidation - the ability to transfer information from short-term to long-term memory)\]. Higher score means better episodic memory of visual-spatial material (maximal points: 54, minimal: 0).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Temperament by EAS Buss & Plomin Questionnaire (Buss, Plomin, 1997)	Baseline	A questionnaire for parents, coaches, teachers. It consists of 20 items - statements, which suitableness is rated by the subject on a five-point scale (from "Never true" to "Always true"). This version has four scales: Shyness, Sociability, Activity, and Emotionality and has 20 items relating to each of the 4 temperaments. There is a 5-point rating scale (from 1: "not characteristic or typical of your child" to 5 : "very characteristic or typical of your child"). These scores belong to each temperament and they are summed.
Sports Intensity by International Physical Activity Questionnaire (in a modified version, relating to children) (Biernat, 2007)	Baseline	Higher scores mean a better physical activity. In test there are 3 categories of activity: insufficient (less than 600), sufficient (600 - 1500 or 600 - 3000) or high (more than 1500 or 3000 MET-min / week)
Intelligence by CFT 20-R, The Culture Fair Intelligence Test (CFIT) - version 2, part 1 only (Cattell, Weiss, adapt. Stańczak,2013)	Baseline	Measurement of fluid intelligence. Higher score means higher fluid intelligence (maximum number of points: 56, minimal: 0).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Gdansk; 🇵🇱 Gdansk, Poland