Effects of Nature Exposure Intervention on Soccer Performance Among Mentally Fatigued University Players

NCT ID: NCT04693481

Last Updated: 2021-06-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-03-10
• Study Completion Date: 2021-06-20

Brief Summary

The current study is going to investigate the nature exposure intervention on the ability of self-regulation and decision-making skills among mentally fatigued soccer players. The subjects will be instructed to view some nature photos, which can facilitate the recovering process for directed attention and the ability of self-regulation. Thus, to see the improvement in decision-making skills.

Detailed Description

The intervention of this study is nature exposure, specifically, instruct subjects to view and immerse in some nature photos due to the humanity of biophilia.

The condition of mental fatigue will be induced by the Stroop task.

Before the intervention or process of viewing photos, the baseline will be recorded to compare the post-test value of self-regulation and the score of decision-making skills.

Moreover, the different durations of viewing photos will be implemented to identify the optimal selection.

Conditions

Mental Fatigue

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

experimental group: 5 seconds for each photo

receive the intervention, which is viewing each nature photo for 5 seconds

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

nature exposure

Intervention Type: OTHER

Nature exposure has different ways, such as walk in the real nature environment; viewing nature photos. Two main reasons make this study will not use the real nature environment: (1) the limitation of time before or amid the soccer competition; (2) the pandemic situation does not allow people go outside as frequently as before. Therefore, the current study will select some nature photos, which are restorative environments and can restore directed attention to counteract mental fatigue.

experimental group: 15 seconds for each photo

receive the intervention, which is viewing each nature photo for 15 seconds

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

nature exposure

Intervention Type: OTHER

Nature exposure has different ways, such as walk in the real nature environment; viewing nature photos. Two main reasons make this study will not use the real nature environment: (1) the limitation of time before or amid the soccer competition; (2) the pandemic situation does not allow people go outside as frequently as before. Therefore, the current study will select some nature photos, which are restorative environments and can restore directed attention to counteract mental fatigue.

experimental group: 30 seconds for each photo

receive the intervention, which is viewing each nature photo for 30 seconds

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

nature exposure

Intervention Type: OTHER

Nature exposure has different ways, such as walk in the real nature environment; viewing nature photos. Two main reasons make this study will not use the real nature environment: (1) the limitation of time before or amid the soccer competition; (2) the pandemic situation does not allow people go outside as frequently as before. Therefore, the current study will select some nature photos, which are restorative environments and can restore directed attention to counteract mental fatigue.

control group

not receive the intervention, which is viewing each nature photo for 0 seconds.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

nature exposure

Nature exposure has different ways, such as walk in the real nature environment; viewing nature photos. Two main reasons make this study will not use the real nature environment: (1) the limitation of time before or amid the soccer competition; (2) the pandemic situation does not allow people go outside as frequently as before. Therefore, the current study will select some nature photos, which are restorative environments and can restore directed attention to counteract mental fatigue.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• The selection of the participants will be every position without the goalkeeper. The age of them will be at 18-24 years. Only male players will be selected. Players should have at least played from the senior school and have 3 years' training experience.

Exclusion Criteria

• The study will exclude color blindness, for the Stroop task will involve color. Self-reports should be free of any known disease or sleep disorder and not currently taking any medication.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 24 Years
• Eligible Sex: MALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Universiti Putra Malaysia

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sun He

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Sun He

Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Countries

China

Other Identifiers

JKEUPM-2020-327

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id