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Mindfulness Training, Mental Fatigue, Endurance Performance and Neurocognitive Functions

NCT05452460 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 53

Last updated 2025-01-30

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Summary

Mental fatigue has been suggested that would impair neurocognitive functions and sports performance. On the other hand, mindfulness training (MT) seems to as a promising approach to attenuate mental fatigue and counteract its detrimental effect on cognitive functions and sports performance. The purpose of the present study is to examine the effect of MT on behavioral and neuroelectric indices of inhibitory control, and endurance performance in mentally fatigued athletes.

Conditions

  • Mindfulness Training
  • Neurocognitive Function
  • Sports Performance
  • Mental Fatigue

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness intervention

The mindfulness program called "Mindfulness-based peak performance (MBPP)" will be used in this study. MBPP is a program that consists of eight 60-min training, and a 60-min session weekly for 8-weeks. The MBPP program will include (1) 5 minutes of will start with a brief recap of the preceding session and homework discussion, (2) after which the 5 minutes of a brief story about performance aimed at inducing the learning motivation of the participants; (3) Followed by 20 minutes of a theoretical lecture introducing a new topic and then (4) 25 minutes of mindfulness exercise. (5) Finally, how to apply the mindfulness skills to sports context will be discussed at the end of each session for 5 minutes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taiwan Normal University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yu-Kai Chang, PhD · National Taiwan Normal University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
25 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-17
Primary Completion
2023-01-10
Completion
2023-01-10

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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