Clinical trial NCT06206668: Effect of Referent Type on Balance in Action Observation.
Official title: Effect of Referent Type on Balance in Action Observation in Healthy People: Randomized Clinical Trial.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Balance Disorders
Keywords: Action observation
Referent
Gender
Balance
Lead sponsor: University Rovira i Virgili
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-01-16
Enrollment: 165
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The objective of the study is to analyze whether observing the actions of a referent selected by the participants improves balance in asymptomatic individuals compared to those who observe a standard referent.

Detailed description: Design: Randomized controlled clinical trial. The primary endpoint of the study was the balance recorded by force platform (estatic) and Y balance test (dynamic).

Setting: The participants will be healthy people in the province of Tarragona.

Participants: They will be randomly assigned to one of three groups using a computerized randomized list:

* Control Group (CG): Participants will watch a video of landscapes without human or animal movement.
* Intervention Group with Referent (GIR): Participants will observe actions whose referent has been selected by themselves based on perceived similarity.
* Standard Intervention Group (GIE): Participants will observe actions with a standard reference.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Be of legal age.
* Have a mobile device.
* Have normal or corrected-to-normal vision.
* Absence of neurological, orthopedic or vestibular disorders.
* Absence of specific balance skills due to competitive sports.
* Obtain a score of 3 or less on the Tegner activity scale.
* Having voluntarily signed the informed consent and being willing to follow the protocol proposed by the research team.

Exclusion Criteria:

* History of participation in any study with movement representation methods.
* Subjects with impaired communication and/or compression.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Static balance
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Dynamic Balance
timeFrame: 1 month
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Age
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Biological sex
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Weight
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Height
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Body mass index (BMI)
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Length of the lower limb.
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Dominant lower limb
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Morphotype
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Trunk and lower extremity muscle strength
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Satisfaction assessed by a selfcreate questionnaire
timeFrame: 1 day
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Reus
country: Spain
facility: Centre Tecnològic de Nutrició i Salut Eurecat
state: Tarragona
Study officials:
affiliation: University Rovira i Virgili
name: Cristina Adillón Camón, Dra.
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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