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The Cogni-Action Project: Physical Activity, Brain, and Cognition

NCT03894241 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2023-11-21

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Summary

Education and health are crucial topics for public policies as both largely determine the future wellbeing of the society. Currently, several studies recognize that physical activity (PA) benefits brain health in children. However, most of these studies have not been carried out in developing countries or lack the transference into the education field.

The Cogni-Action Project is a crossover-randomized trial. The aim of the study is to determinate the acute effects of three different training sessions consisting in (i) "Moderate-Intensity Continuous Training" (MICT), (ii) "Cooperative High-Intensity Interval Training" (C-HIIT), and (iii) sedentary activity on spontaneous brain activity and neuroelectric indices of cognitive performance during a working memory and a reading task, as measured by electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracker. In an energy expenditure counterbalanced fashion, 32 adolescents will randomly undergo each training session , two weeks apart.

The main strength of this project is that, to our knowledge, this is the first study analysing the potential influence of PA, sedentarism, and physical fitness on brain structure and function, cognitive performance, and academic achievement in Latin-America and, specifically, in Chile which has been catalogued with an important sociocultural gap. For this purpose, this study will use advanced technologies in neuroimaging (MRI), electrophysiology EEG, and eye-tracking , as well as objective and quality measurements of several physical and cognitive health outcomes.

Conditions

  • Cognitive Function 1, Social

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

physical activity

Participants will assist to the three different sessions at the same weekday (e.g., Monday) and at the same daytime to avoid differences in preceding school activities or circadian rhythms. Participants will undergo a "Sedentary condition" (SC), sitting and watching a documentary on TV as has been used previously, and two different PA protocols consisting in "Moderate-Intensity Continuous Training" (MICT), i.e., continuous outdoor walking, and "Cooperative High-Intensity Interval Training" (C-HIIT), composed of a circuit training with a partner (physical education teacher)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carlos Cristi-Montero, Ph.D. · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-08-01
Primary Completion
2019-10-31
Completion
2019-10-31

Countries

  • Chile

Study Locations

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