Clinical trial NCT05452629: Effect of Brief Mindfulness and Relaxation Inductions on Anxiety, Affect and Brain Activation in Athletes
Official title: Effect of Brief Mindfulness and Relaxation Inductions on Anxiety, Affect and Brain Activation in Athletes
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: State Anxiety
Affect
Electroencephalography
Keywords: Mindfulness
Relaxation
Mental health
EEG
Cognitive resource
Lead sponsor: National Taiwan Normal University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-07-11
Enrollment: 35
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 25
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Intervention model description: In a counterbalanced order, participants completed three conditions that incorporated two 30-minute experimental conditions (i.e., MI or RI) and a control condition (i.e., opened thinking)
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The athlete population has a high risk of suffering from mental health problems (e.g., anxiety), especially for athletes with individual sports. As such, various forms of mental training were used to maintain the mental health of athletes, such as mindfulness training or relaxation training. However, differences pertaining to the electrophysiological mechanisms resulting from both mental training in athletes are unknown. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to examine the differential effects between the brief mindfulness induction (MI) and relaxation induction (RI) on state anxiety, affect and the activation of the brain in track and field athletes.

Detailed description: The purposes of this study are: (1) examining the effect of brief mindfulness induction (MI) and relaxation induction (RI) on anxiety and affect in athletes with individual sports, (2) and we sought to identify the different brain activity (i.e., theta, alpha) changes between MI and RI using EEG. In the present study, subjects were contrasted using a within-subject comparison across MI, RI, and control condition. According to past works on the comparison of mindfulness and psychological skill training, we hypothesized that MI and RI would both improve anxiety and affect, compared with control condition. Furthermore, we also hypothesized that RI would elicit greater theta power (i.e., more cognitive control) than MI. In addition, when compared with control condition, participants might be elicited greater alpha power during the MI and RI.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. track and field athletes with regular training
2. right-handedness
3. no history of neurological illness
4. no regular training experience in mindfulness or relaxation interventions

Exclusion Criteria:

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Primary outcomes:
measure: State anxiety
timeFrame: 10 minutes
measure: Affective state
timeFrame: 5 minutes
measure: EEG
timeFrame: 30 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: Yu-Kai Chang, Ph.D.
Study officials:
affiliation: Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University
name: Yu-Kai Chang, Ph.D.
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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