Acute Effects of Moderate Intensity Aerobic Exercise on Cognitive Functions in Young Adult Males

NCT05905081 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 4930-GOA
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 61
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

60 healthy male university students will be included in this study. Physical fitness parameters, fluid intelligence, and physical activity level will be measured at baseline. Participants will be randomised to one of two testing schedules, groups will complete either a 30-minutes aerobic exercise session or a resting control condition. Cognitive measures (simple reaction time task, go/nogo task, spatial cueing, n-back task) will be tested before and after the intervention.

Conditions

Cognitive Change

Keywords

acute aerobic exercise; cognition; university students; physical fitness

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Change in motor inhibition

  Go/NoGo Task

  Baseline and 30 mins after baseline

• Change in working memory capacity

  N-Back Task

  Baseline and 30 mins after baseline

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Change in psychomotor rate

  Baseline and 30 mins after baseline

• Change in visual inspection and attention

  Baseline and 30 mins after baseline

Other Outcomes (7)

• International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)

  At baseline

• VO2max

  At baseline

• Raven's Progressive Matrices

  At baseline

Study Arms (2)

Exercise Group

EXPERIMENTAL

30-minutes moderate-intensity aerobic exercise will be performed according to ACSM guidelines

Other: aerobic exercise

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

30-minutes video screening while sitting

Interventions

aerobic exercise OTHER

30-minutes aerobic exercise intervention on the bicycle ergometer. The exercise protocol includes 5 minutes of warm-up, 20 minutes of loading and 5 minutes of cool-down. The intensity of the exercise will be adjusted to be between 46% and 63% of the VO2max calculated according to the exercise programming guide published by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and the perceived effort level on the Borg scale will be 12-13. Warm-up and cool-down periods will be set to 46% of VO2max and Borg perceived exertion level below 9.

Exercise Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 25 Years
• Sex: male
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• No known psychiatric, cognitive or physical health problems
• No limiting issue for performing exercise according to Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q+)
• Physical activity level according to International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) \< 3000 MET

You may not qualify if:

• Discomfort/illness that will interfere with physical activity
• Using any medication or stimulants
• Having limitations for performing exercise according to Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q+)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Izmir University of Economics: lead

Study Sites (1)

Izmir University of Economics

Izmir, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Exercise

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Motor Activity; Movement; Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena; Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Study Officials

• Şermin Tükel Akay, PhD

  Izmir University of Economics

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Asst. Prof.

Model Details: Two group comparison, before and after intervention

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 3, 2023
• First Posted: June 15, 2023
• Study Start: June 20, 2023
• Primary Completion: September 1, 2023
• Study Completion: September 1, 2023
• Last Updated: September 13, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)