Relationship Between Modality-specific Dual-task Performance and Immersive Exergaming Outcomes in Healthy Athletes

NCT07461025 | Recruiting DMC

• 1 other identifier: DUTACO
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to provide a more specific understanding of which dual task conditions elicit changes in either motor or cognitive performance. A dual-task is a simultaneously performed motor and cognitive task. Exergaming describes physically active gaming. The main questions the study aims to answer are:

• Can performance in visual and auditory dual-task paradigms explain performance in an immersive exergaming task in healthy athletes?
• How are exergaming scores associated with athletic performance tests?
• What biomechanical movement patterns are shown during dual-tasks? Researchers will also compare performance of those experienced with jumping and those inexperienced with jumping. Participants will:
• Complete two sessions performing athletic performance tests, cognitive tasks, and different dual-tasks while their movement pattern is recorded
• Complete questionnaires on load, stress, and sleep during the sessions

Conditions

Healthy Athlete

Keywords

dual task

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Cognitive dual-task cost

  Dual-task cost with the different modalities are operationalized by reaction time.

  Measurement session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (days 6-90)

• Exergaming performance

  Operationalized as task success rate

  Session 2 (days 6-90)

Secondary Outcomes (8)

• Motor dual-task cost

  Session 1 (day 0)

• Countermovement Jump

  Session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (day 6-90)

• ProAgility Test

  Session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (day 6-90)

• Y-Balance Test

  Session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (days 6-90)

• Joint Angle

  Session 1 (day 0) and session 2 (day 6-90)

Study Arms (1)

Dual-Task paradigms

EXPERIMENTAL

All participants are exposed to the same dual-task paradigms described in the intervention.

Other: different dual-task paradigms

Interventions

different dual-task paradigms OTHER

Participants will perform combined motor-cognitive tasks. During the first session balancing and bilateral jumping will be combined with an additional auditory or visual cognitive task. During the second session participants will do a combined motor-cognitive task in exergaming.

Dual-Task paradigms

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 34 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• age between 18 and 34 years
• self-reported recreationally or competitively active (more than 2 hours per week)
• self-reported ability to complete change of direction, balancing, and jumping tasks
• capacity to sign informed consent
• ability to understand German

You may not qualify if:

• acute injury in the last 6 months resulting in missing more than 3 training sessions
• severe comorbidity or condition which would prohibit performance of the lsted testing tasks
• self-reported pregnancy

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Zurich University of Applied Sciences: lead

Study Sites (1)

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Winterthur, Canton of Zurich, 8400, Switzerland

RECRUITING

Central Study Contacts

Michelle C. Haas

CONTACT

+41 58 934 75 57; michelle.haas@zhaw.ch

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 26, 2026
• First Posted: March 10, 2026
• Study Start: March 24, 2026
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2026
• Study Completion: August 1, 2026
• Last Updated: April 1, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Time Frame: Within one year after completion of the study.
• Access Criteria: The access conditions will be defined in the license statement adjacent to the dataset.

Locations

CH (1)