Effects of Capoeira on the Physical and Psychological Performance of Adults

NCT ID: NCT06337929

Last Updated: 2024-03-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 42 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-04-01
• Study Completion Date: 2024-12-13

Brief Summary

Regular physical activity (PA) promotes benefits for both physical and mental health. Among the numerous PA's with a collective nature that can add to the existing recommendations, combat sports training interventions are viable alternatives since they integrate benefits in different aspects for health. In this way, capoeira can be a strategy for the prescription of exercise, aiming to serve participants collectively and maintaining the adherence of this practitioner to the intervention. However, little is known about this issue. So, the aim of the present study is to verify the effect of 12 weeks of capoeira training on the physical performance and psychological aspects of previously physically inactive adults.

Detailed Description

The study will be conducted as a controlled, randomized, two-group parallel and superiority clinical trial with a 1:1 allocation ratio. The sample will be divided into two groups: 1) capoeira training group (n = 76; GCAP) and 2) control group (n = 76; GCONT). Participants aged between 18 and 59 years, classified as irregularly active A by the international physical activity questionnaire, who are not engaged in training programs and are not former athletes, will be eligible. Smokers and patients with respiratory or cardiovascular diseases will be excluded from the sample. Anamnesis and anthropometric evaluation will initially be performed. To evaluate the physical aspects, specific tests will be applied to determine aerobic and anaerobic fitness, strength and power of lower limbs, balance, motor coordination and questionnaires will be applied to verify the psychological aspects, such as emotional intelligence, motivation and quality of life. The descriptive analysis of the outcomes will be reported. The normality of the data will be checked by visual inspection of the Q-Q plot and statistically tested by the Shapiro-Wilk test. Two-way ANOVA for repeated measures will be employed to verify the time*group interaction. The effect size (ES) of the intervention on dependent variables will be calculated and the difference between the ES and its respective 95% confidence interval will be calculated to estimate the magnitude of the response in the intervention. The alpha adopted will be 5% and the software used for data analysis will be Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences 25.0.

Conditions

Training; Mental Health; Physical Fitness

Keywords

Combat sports; Brazilian martial art; Physical fitness

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: TRIPLE

Study Groups

CAPOEIRA GROUP

The training program will be conducted over 12 weeks with two weekly sessions. Each session will last 60 minutes and will be divided into three parts: 1) initial part: execution of stretches and low-intensity actions with specific movements of capoeira; 2) main part: realization of the training program the schedule present in Table 1 for the learning of attacks, dodges and acrobatic movements or flourishes and; 3) Final part: in a self-selected way in the capoeira roda, the participant will develop the previously learned movements.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

CAPOEIRA TRAINING

Intervention Type: OTHER

The protocol of the capoeira training program and the movements (blows, dodges and flourishes) will be based on the Capoeira Abadá method.

CONTROL GROUP

The CONTROL GROUP will be conducted over 12 weeks with two weekly sessions. Each session will last 60 minutes and will be divided into three parts: 1) initial part: execution of stretches and low-intensity actions with specific movements of capoeira; 2) main part: continuation with execution of stretches and low-intensity actions with specific movements of capoeira and; 3) Final part: in a self-selected way in the capoeira roda, the participant will develop the previously learned movements.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

CONTROL GROUP

Intervention Type: OTHER

The protocol of the control group will be based on an intervention with capoeira movements, however, without important cardiovascular, neuromuscular and metabolic demands, being an activity with stretching movements from positions of the capoeira modality itself.

Interventions

CAPOEIRA TRAINING

The protocol of the capoeira training program and the movements (blows, dodges and flourishes) will be based on the Capoeira Abadá method.

Intervention Type: OTHER

CONTROL GROUP

The protocol of the control group will be based on an intervention with capoeira movements, however, without important cardiovascular, neuromuscular and metabolic demands, being an activity with stretching movements from positions of the capoeira modality itself.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Classified as "irregularly active A" by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire;
• Do not be engaged and/or have participated in the last two months of any physical training program;
• Do not be former athletes;
• Do not be a smoker or suffering from respiratory or cardiovascular diseases.

Exclusion Criteria

• Do not have musculoskeletal problems during the program that make it impossible to participate;
• Do not participating in at least 80% of the training sessions during the intervention.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 59 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Universidade Federal do vale do São Francisco

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sérgio Rodrigues Moreira

Professor (PhD)

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

UNIVASF

Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil

Countries

Brazil

Other Identifiers

Ethics Approval: n. 6.683.936

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id