PLAYwithHEART: PLAY With Happiness, Engagement, Acceptance, and Respect With Your Team

NCT04850872 | Active Not Recruiting

• 2 other identifiers: CINEICCSFRH/BD/143410/2019
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 50
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This investigation aims to apply and test the feasibility of a structured Program for young athletes. PLAYwithHEART is a program for promoting acceptance and cooperation skills in adolescent athletes. This group application program comprises eight weekly sessions and aims to decrease levels of sport anxiety, and increase the psychological quality of life of young athletes, by promoting skills inherent to an affiliation mentality (mindfulness, acceptance, and compassion), as an alternative to a social ranking mentality (based on maladaptive processes, such as shame and self-criticism), to deal with the challenges and demands of the sport context.

Conditions

Adolescents; Athletes

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Changes in Quality of Life

  Measured by the The KIDSCREEN-10 quality of life measure for children and adolescents - higher levels mean a better outcome

  From baseline to 6-months follow-up

• Changes in competitive anxiety

  Measured by the Sport Anxiety Scale (SAS-2) - lower levels mean a better outcome

  From baseline to 6-months follow-up

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Changes in Mindfulness

  From baseline to 6-months follow-up

• Changes in Psychological Inflexibility

  From baseline to 6-months follow-up

• Changes in Self-compassion

  From baseline to 6-months follow-up

• Changes in shame

  From baseline to 6-months follow-up

• Changes in self-criticism

  From baseline to 6-months follow-up

Study Arms (2)

Experimental

EXPERIMENTAL

PLAYwithHEART Programme is a manualized mindfulness, acceptance, and compassionate-based group intervention for adolescent competitive athletes. It included 8 weekly group sessions, 45 minutes each, run in small groups (ranging from 8 to 12 participants). Participants of this group complete also self-report measures.

Behavioral: PLAYwithHEART Programme for adolescent athletes

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Participants of control group do not receive the intervention Programme (PLAYwithHEART), nor any other program, and only complete self-report measures.

Interventions

PLAYwithHEART Programme for adolescent athletes BEHAVIORAL

PLAYwithHEART programme for adolescent athletes is an intervention programme based on Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Compassion for adolescent athletes

Experimental

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 12 Years - 18 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• adolescent competitive athletes
• presentation of the informed consent signed by the participant and respetive legal guardian
• availability to participate in the 8 sessions of the PLAYwithHEART Programme
• inexistence of cognitive difficulties that interfere in completing self-response measures
• not being under psychological / psychiatric appointments

You may not qualify if:

• no presentation of the informed consent signed by the participant and respetive legal guardian
• unavailability to participate in the 8 sessions of the PLAYwithHEART Programme
• existence of cognitive difficulties that interfere in completing self-response measures
• being under psychological / psychiatric appointments

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Coimbra: lead

Study Sites (1)

Different sports clubs in Portugal

Coimbra, Portugal

Location

Study Officials

• Sara Oliveira, MS

  University of Coimbra

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: MS

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 14, 2021
• First Posted: April 20, 2021
• Study Start: February 1, 2020
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2024
• Study Completion: August 1, 2024
• Last Updated: March 21, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-03

Locations

PT (1)