Effects of Functional Training on Fundamental Motor Skills Among Children
Condition: Healthy Children
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the effects that functional training may have
      on the development of fundamental motor skills and to create a systematic functional training
      program suitable for healthy children aged 6-7 years.

      The main question[s] it aims to answer are:

        -  [To examine the effects of functional training on FMS among children aged 6-7 years.]

        -  [To compare the effects of functional training on FMS between boys and girls]

      This study will include an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group
      will engage in functional training, while the control group will follow the state-mandated
      physical education curriculum. Through experiments, we will investigate the effect of
      functional training on children's fundamental motor skills and assess whether the
      experimental group's intervention effect is superior to the control group. The samples in
      this study were normal Chinese children aged 6-7 years. There were 40 people in both the
      experimental and control groups, including 20 boys and 20 girls
    

Detailed description: 
      Training intervention information This study will include an experimental group and a control
      group. The experimental group will engage in functional training, while the control group
      will follow the state-mandated physical education curriculum. Through experiments, we will
      investigate the effect of functional training on children's fundamental motor skills and
      assess whether the experimental group's intervention effect is superior to the control group.
      The samples in this study were normal Chinese children aged 6-7 years. There were 66 people
      in both the experimental group and control groups, including 35 boys and 35 girls.

      Training Intervention Protocol for experiment group The selection of training items and
      content and the design of the training plan are based on the training content and principals
      involved in books such as the physical and motor function training for children, edited by
      Zhang Xiuli et al. (2018), the physical function training manual for adolescents and children
      edited by Wang Xiong (2019), and the functional training edited by Santana (2016).
      Furthermore, based on the literature review, the training frequency for the experiment was
      two (2) times a week, each lasting 45 minutes, including a 5-minute warm-up phase, a
      35-minute main training phase, and a 5-minute relaxation phase, for a total training time of
      12 weeks. The content was changed every two (2) weeks, and the intensity of the main phase of
      training ranged from 60% to 70%.

      Training Intervention Protocol for control group The training content of the control group
      will be selected by the Compulsory Education Physical Education and Health Curriculum
      Standard in the year 2022. This standard follows the school's physical education teaching
      plan; the students in the control group will participate in the school's standard physical
      education curriculum. The specific content will be based on the actual physical education
      curriculum of the school. The training frequency for the control group was two times (2) a
      week, each lasting 45 minutes, and for a total training time of 12 weeks.
    

Intervention name(s): Functional training
Intervention type(s): Other
Intervention description(s): Physical and motor function training for children,may use BOSU balls, medicine balls, balance mats, fitness steps, and other training equipment to improve gradually
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Intervention model description: The study will be conducted using a randomized controlled trial (RCT), and the study will be divided into three parts: pre-study baseline testing, intervention training and post-study testing. The entire experiment will be conducted in the first academic year of 2023.2-2023.4. A pilot study will be carried out first, followed by the actual research, in order to provide the framework and offer support for the full-scale experiment that will follow. The subjects involved in this study are 6-year-old and 7-year-old children, all students participating in the study will be divided into experimental and control groups.
Masking: Single (Participant)
Primary purpose: Basic Science
Keywords: functional training