A New Dual Task Test Method for Football Players

NCT ID: NCT05218993

Last Updated: 2024-10-02

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-11-15

Study Completion Date

2025-07-31

Brief Summary

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Multitasking (Dual Task) is a measurement method to evaluate cognitive ability to execute multiple functions at the same time. To perform this test, while participant/patient performing a main skill (for example, walking), a cognitive skill is added (for example, counting 7 backwards from 100) to measure how much the completion performance of the activity is affected. Frequently used multitasking trainings are known as counting back from 100 and asking mathematical equations during a physical skill. Multitasking skill is rarely used in sports-related training, and it is generally used in the form of counting 7 backwards from 100, counting months and counting 5-letter words while walking over obstacles. However, multitasking training methods described and applied in the literature are not specific to football skills. For this reason, limited tests defined and applied in other clinical and sportive fields may not be sufficient in football players who perform activities that require high performance. Therefore, aim of this study is to develop a dual-task assessment method, which includes the cognitive loads experienced by football players during training and matches, and also covers the basic skills of football. As a result of this study, a football-specific dual-task test will be created and the capacity of the athletes will be measured by applying this test to healthy athletes. Also, this test will be conducted on football players with recent knee injury history, who wish to return to sport, and to evaluate their dual-task capacity and to correlate it with kinesiophobia and other performance tests

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Sports Physical Therapy Multi-Tasking Behavior ACL Injury Kinesiophobia

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Development of the new dual task test

the new two different method of dual task measurement and a traditional dual task measurement method and also, cognitive and performance measurement test will be conducted.

A new dual-task measurement method with images

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Football players will perform Illinois t test with and without cognitive demand with images. These images will represent scenarios from football with some of the players in the scene are from his team and others from opposing team. The player will be asked to look at the image and say the number on the player in following scenarios; The player to whom he can pass the ball, The player who is most likely to intervene the ball, The player who can score the goal. In order to reduce the other possibilities, opposing team players will be positioned in a specific way to block all team-mates but one.

A new dual-task measurement method with cards

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Football players will perform Illinois t test with and without cognitive demand with cards and balls. On the path of Illinois t test, there will be 3 football balls, 3-meters apart from each other, and there will be cards behind each, which can only be seen when the player about to hit the ball. This cards will vary in color (blue or red), which mean right or left. If the player sees red card, he will shoot the ball to the left side goal and if the player sees blue card, he will shoot the ball to the right side.

Collecting the normative values

Better dual task measurement method (from the two methods) will be conducted at different football levels.

A new dual-task measurement method with images

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Football players will perform Illinois t test with and without cognitive demand with images. These images will represent scenarios from football with some of the players in the scene are from his team and others from opposing team. The player will be asked to look at the image and say the number on the player in following scenarios; The player to whom he can pass the ball, The player who is most likely to intervene the ball, The player who can score the goal. In order to reduce the other possibilities, opposing team players will be positioned in a specific way to block all team-mates but one.

A new dual-task measurement method with cards

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Football players will perform Illinois t test with and without cognitive demand with cards and balls. On the path of Illinois t test, there will be 3 football balls, 3-meters apart from each other, and there will be cards behind each, which can only be seen when the player about to hit the ball. This cards will vary in color (blue or red), which mean right or left. If the player sees red card, he will shoot the ball to the left side goal and if the player sees blue card, he will shoot the ball to the right side.

Measurement of the athletes in return to sport stage

new dual task measurement method and other return to sport measurements will be conducted on athletes who wish to return to sport.

A new dual-task measurement method with images

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Football players will perform Illinois t test with and without cognitive demand with images. These images will represent scenarios from football with some of the players in the scene are from his team and others from opposing team. The player will be asked to look at the image and say the number on the player in following scenarios; The player to whom he can pass the ball, The player who is most likely to intervene the ball, The player who can score the goal. In order to reduce the other possibilities, opposing team players will be positioned in a specific way to block all team-mates but one.

A new dual-task measurement method with cards

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Football players will perform Illinois t test with and without cognitive demand with cards and balls. On the path of Illinois t test, there will be 3 football balls, 3-meters apart from each other, and there will be cards behind each, which can only be seen when the player about to hit the ball. This cards will vary in color (blue or red), which mean right or left. If the player sees red card, he will shoot the ball to the left side goal and if the player sees blue card, he will shoot the ball to the right side.

Interventions

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A new dual-task measurement method with images

Football players will perform Illinois t test with and without cognitive demand with images. These images will represent scenarios from football with some of the players in the scene are from his team and others from opposing team. The player will be asked to look at the image and say the number on the player in following scenarios; The player to whom he can pass the ball, The player who is most likely to intervene the ball, The player who can score the goal. In order to reduce the other possibilities, opposing team players will be positioned in a specific way to block all team-mates but one.

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

A new dual-task measurement method with cards

Football players will perform Illinois t test with and without cognitive demand with cards and balls. On the path of Illinois t test, there will be 3 football balls, 3-meters apart from each other, and there will be cards behind each, which can only be seen when the player about to hit the ball. This cards will vary in color (blue or red), which mean right or left. If the player sees red card, he will shoot the ball to the left side goal and if the player sees blue card, he will shoot the ball to the right side.

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* attending regularly to the trainings
* being a professional football player

Exclusion Criteria

* having any neurological disorders
Minimum Eligible Age

14 Years

Eligible Sex

MALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Hacettepe University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Özgün Uysal

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Tüzün Fırat, Prof.

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Hacettepe University

Locations

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Hacettepe University

Ankara, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status

Countries

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Turkey (Türkiye)

References

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Rosch D, Hodgson R, Peterson TL, Graf-Baumann T, Junge A, Chomiak J, Dvorak J. Assessment and evaluation of football performance. Am J Sports Med. 2000;28(5 Suppl):S29-39. doi: 10.1177/28.suppl_5.s-29.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11032105 (View on PubMed)

Stoet G. PsyToolkit: a software package for programming psychological experiments using Linux. Behav Res Methods. 2010 Nov;42(4):1096-104. doi: 10.3758/BRM.42.4.1096.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 21139177 (View on PubMed)

Kessels RP, van Zandvoort MJ, Postma A, Kappelle LJ, de Haan EH. The Corsi Block-Tapping Task: standardization and normative data. Appl Neuropsychol. 2000;7(4):252-8. doi: 10.1207/S15324826AN0704_8.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11296689 (View on PubMed)

Davis L, Appleby R, Davis P, Wetherell M, Gustafsson H. The role of coach-athlete relationship quality in team sport athletes' psychophysiological exhaustion: implications for physical and cognitive performance. J Sports Sci. 2018 Sep;36(17):1985-1992. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2018.1429176. Epub 2018 Jan 23.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29359646 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

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https://www.psytoolkit.org/

website from which the cognitive tests will be applied.

Other Identifiers

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DualTask

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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