Playing AVI During Tennis Training Process

NCT03946436 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: AVITENNIS
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 55
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Developing movement capabilities and efficiently acquiring and assimilating movement information and knowledge in middle childhood stages is of great importance for performing complex movement structures in later stages of life. Our study is directed to researching the influence of active video games (AVG) on assessment of tennis motor skills and visual capabilities in middle childhood, as a part of two separate sub-researches.

Conditions

Learning, Spatial; Cognitive Change

Keywords

stroke technique; psychophysiological body responses; visual perceptual skills; reaction time.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Psychophysiological body responses 1: skin conductance

  Skin conductance measured in micro siemens

  change from baseline to 3-months intervention

• Psychophysiological body responses 2: skin temperature

  Skin temperature measured in Celsius

  change from baseline to 3-months intervention

• Psychophysiological body responses 3: heart rate frequency

  hear rate measured in beats per minute

  change from baseline to 3-months intervention

• Psychophysiological body responses 4: breathing frequency

  breathing frequency measured in breaths per minute

  change from baseline to 3-months intervention

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• TGMD-3 scale (Test of Gross Motor Development-Third Edition)

  change from baseline to 3-months intervention

Other Outcomes (2)

• Manual/analog visuomotor reaction time task

  change from baseline to 3-months intervention

• Simon task

  change from baseline to 3-months intervention

Study Arms (2)

I-AVI

EXPERIMENTAL

The I-AVI group were involved in a regular tennis training process, two times a week for one hour. Additionally right after the tennis lessons they played a Virtua Tennis 4 active video game for 20 minutes per participant. They use the playstation kinect console. The intervention lasted 6 months.

Device: Active video games; Other: tennis training process

NO-AVI

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The NO\_AVI group were involved in a regular tennis training process, two times a week for one hour. The training process lasted 6 months.

Other: tennis training process

Interventions

Active video games DEVICE

Participants played the active video game Virtua tennis 4 on a playstation kinect device

I-AVI

tennis training process OTHER

Participants were involved in a regular tennis training process, performed two times a week for one hour per lesson.

I-AVI; NO-AVI

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 7 Years - 9 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Age limit

You may not qualify if:

• excluded were players with injuries or long-term body impairments that prevented them from performing shots as they are usually instructed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Marusic: lead
• Science and Research Centre Koper: collaborator
• University of Primorska: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Tenis klub San Simon Izola

Izola, 6310, Slovenia

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Slosar L, de Bruin ED, Fontes EB, Plevnik M, Pisot R, Simunic B, Marusic U. Additional Exergames to Regular Tennis Training Improves Cognitive-Motor Functions of Children but May Temporarily Affect Tennis Technique: A Single-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial. Front Psychol. 2021 Mar 15;12:611382. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.611382. eCollection 2021.

  PMID: 33790833 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Spatial Learning

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Spatial Behavior; Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant professor Uros Marusic, PhD

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 6, 2019
• First Posted: May 10, 2019
• Study Start: January 1, 2018
• Primary Completion: January 1, 2019
• Study Completion: January 1, 2020
• Last Updated: May 1, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-04

Locations

SL (1)