Effects of Capoeira on the Physical and Psychological Performance of Adults

Universidade Federal do vale do São Francisco

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Physical Fitness; Training; Mental Health

Treatments: Other: CONTROL GROUP; Other: CAPOEIRA TRAINING

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06337929

Ethics Approval: n. 6.683.936

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 42 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 59 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

CAPOEIRA GROUP

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: CAPOEIRA TRAINING

CONTROL GROUP

Active Comparator group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: CONTROL GROUP