A New Dual Task Test Method for Football Players
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: A new dual-task measurement method with images, A new dual-task measurement method with cards.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Sports Physical Therapy, Multi-Tasking Behavior, ACL Injury, Kinesiophobia. Basic parameters: from 14 years · Male.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
A New Dual Task Capacity Measuring Method for Football Players
Overview
Multitasking (Dual Task) is a measurement method to evaluate cognitive ability to execute multiple functions at the same time. To perform this test, while participant/patient performing a main skill (for example, walking), a cognitive skill is added (for example, counting 7 backwards from 100) to measure how much the completion performance of the activity is affected. Frequently used multitasking trainings are known as counting back from 100 and asking mathematical equations during a physical skill. Multitasking skill is rarely used in sports-related training, and it is generally used in the form of counting 7 backwards from 100, counting months and counting 5-letter words while walking over obstacles. However, multitasking training methods described and applied in the literature are not specific to football skills. For this reason, limited tests defined and applied in other clinical and sportive fields may not be sufficient in football players who perform activities that require high performance. Therefore, aim of this study is to develop a dual-task assessment method, which includes the cognitive loads experienced by football players during training and matches, and also covers the basic skills of football. As a result of this study, a football-specific dual-task test will be created and the capacity of the athletes will be measured by applying this test to healthy athletes. Also, this test will be conducted on football players with recent knee injury history, who wish to return to sport, and to evaluate their dual-task capacity and to correlate it with kinesiophobia and other performance tests
Interventions
- Diagnostic test A new dual-task measurement method with images
Football players will perform Illinois t test with and without cognitive demand with images. These images will represent scenarios from football with some of the players in the scene are from his team and others from opposing team. The player will be asked to look at the image and say the number on the player in following scenarios; The player to whom he can pass the ball, The player who is most likely to intervene the ball, The player who can score the goal. In order to reduce the other possibi - Diagnostic test A new dual-task measurement method with cards
Football players will perform Illinois t test with and without cognitive demand with cards and balls. On the path of Illinois t test, there will be 3 football balls, 3-meters apart from each other, and there will be cards behind each, which can only be seen when the player about to hit the ball. This cards will vary in color (blue or red), which mean right or left. If the player sees red card, he will shoot the ball to the left side goal and if the player sees blue card, he will shoot the ball t
Primary outcome measures
- Traditional dual task assessment [Time frame: At the baseline]
Secondary outcome measures (9)
- Juggling tests [Time frame: At the baseline]
- Fast dribbling test [Time frame: At the baseline]
- Long pass accuracy test [Time frame: At the baseline]
- Stroop test [Time frame: At the baseline]
- Corsi task [Time frame: At the baseline]
- Simple and choice based reaction times [Time frame: At the baseline]
- Mental rotation task [Time frame: At the baseline]
- Kinesiophobia measurement [Time frame: At the baseline]
- Return to sport readiness [Time frame: At the baseline]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- attending regularly to the trainings
- being a professional football player
Exclusion criteria
- having any neurological disorders
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
Turkey (Türkiye) · 1 center
- Hacettepe University — Ankara
Publications
- Rosch D, Hodgson R, Peterson TL, Graf-Baumann T, Junge A, Chomiak J, Dvorak J. Assessment and evaluation of football performance. Am J Sports Med. 2000;28(5 Suppl):S29-39. doi: 10.1177/28.suppl_5.s-29. PMID 11032105
- Stoet G. PsyToolkit: a software package for programming psychological experiments using Linux. Behav Res Methods. 2010 Nov;42(4):1096-104. doi: 10.3758/BRM.42.4.1096. PMID 21139177
- Kessels RP, van Zandvoort MJ, Postma A, Kappelle LJ, de Haan EH. The Corsi Block-Tapping Task: standardization and normative data. Appl Neuropsychol. 2000;7(4):252-8. doi: 10.1207/S15324826AN0704_8. PMID 11296689
- Davis L, Appleby R, Davis P, Wetherell M, Gustafsson H. The role of coach-athlete relationship quality in team sport athletes' psychophysiological exhaustion: implications for physical and cognitive performance. J Sports Sci. 2018 Sep;36(17):1985-1992. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2018.1429176. Epub 2018 Jan 23. PMID 29359646
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05218993 · DualTask