Mindfulness and Paralympic Sport: a Mindfulness Based Intervention for Paralympic Boccia Brazilian Team (MPS)
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 25
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change in quality of life
研究概览
简要总结
The approach of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games brings an opportunity for reflection on how the academic universe follows the evolution of this sports segment and whether it is possible to carry out an intervention that will contribute to improving and maintaining the performance of Paralympic Boccia Brazilian Team. Mindfulness means being aware and describes a natural human capacity that can be trained and previous researches indicate that the presence of mindfulness traits in athletes can be improved with mindfulness training. Specifically, the Paralympic Boccia is a sport that is on the rise for new resources that can collaborate with its performance in a national and international context. Thus, the objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of a mindfulness-based intervention on Paralympic Boccia athletes, in particular, the impact on sports performance and quality of life from the change in attentional level. It is a pilot study of feasibility and preliminary effectiveness composed of a longitudinal intervention that uses as a baseline measure a Mindfulness Training of 2 cycles (each cycle is formed by 4 days of intervention); two follow-up measures (1 and 6 months after the 2nd cycle); and a final measurement (12 months after the start of the study). The research will have as a convenience sample Athletes from the Paralympic Boccia Brazilian Team, which will be compared with itself in the data analysis. It is expected to show a positive impact on the athletes' quality of life (primary outcome). As secondary outcomes, it is expected to show the evolution of sports performance in relation to the accuracy of the pitch and the speed of the ball, in addition to improving the attention focus and perceived stress, which affect the tactics and performance of the game. The potential benefits of this research also have a social component, by expanding the understanding of human nature through sport, and also a functional component, by impacting the performance of these high-performance athletes.
详细描述
Since the participation of an athlete with a disability in the Olympic Games in 1904, a long road has been traveled until the Paralympic sport was understood as a standard of high performance, in which Brazil stands out when occupying the eighth place in the overall ranking of medals in the Rio 2016 Games, as well as consecutive leader in the Pan American Games (2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019). The approach of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics brings an opportunity for reflection on how the academic universe follows the evolution of this sports segment and whether it is possible to carry out an intervention that will contribute to improving and maintaining the performance of these athletes.
Mindfulness means being aware and describes a natural human capacity that can be trained. The option of the Paralympic Boccia Brazilian Team for a research on mindfulness is because of the identification of previous researches that indicate that the presence of mindfulness traits in athletes can be improved with mindfulness training. Specifically, the Paralympic Boccia is a sport that is on the rise for new resources that can collaborate with its performance in a national and international context.
Considering that sports performance is composed of several pillars, such as physical, technical, tactical and psychological, there is an opportunity to investigate the following findings of mindfulness-based interventions in a complex population:
Mindfulness practice consistently and significantly improves levels of mindfulness across various sports disciplines.
Physiological and psychological performance improved significantly until the practice of mindfulness.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Must be an Athlete from the Paralympic Boccia Brazilian Team
排除标准
- •Diagnosis of an active mental disorder, such as depression and anxiety, in the initial phase of treatment
- •Diagnosis of an active mental disorder, such as depression and anxiety, with severe symptoms
- •Having previous experience with mindfulness (regular practice in the last 6 months)
- •Athletes without access to the internet or electronic means to access audio practices
研究组 & 干预措施
Athletes from the Paralympic Boccia Brazilian Team
The research will have as a convenience sample 11 Athletes from the Paralympic Boccia Brazilian Team, which will be compared with itself in the data analysis. This study includes the category called Other participants formed by staff, freshmen, technicians and other professionals who are present during the interventions.
干预措施: A mindfulness based intervention (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in quality of life
时间窗: T0 (baseline), T1 (1 week), T2 (1 month), T3 (6 months), T4 (12 months)
WHOQOL-bref means World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment - bref. This Scale assesses quality of life: it is an abbreviated version of the WHOQOL-100 with 26 questions divided into four domains, namely, physical, psychological, social relations and the environment. The answers follow a Likert scale (from 1 to 5, how much the higher the score the better the quality of life).
次要结局
- Change of sports performance(T0 (baseline), T4 (12 months))
- Change of sports performance (II)(T0 (baseline), T4 (12 months))
研究者
Marcelo Demarzo, MD, PhD
Head and Associate Professor
Centro Mente Aberta de Mindfulness