Effects of Exergaming Session Frequency on Work Performance, Cognition, and Mobility in Adults Age 55 to 65

Somogy Megyei Kaposi Mór Teaching Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Exergaming 3/week; Other: Healthy control / Exergaming 1/week; Other: Exergame 2/week

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03743363

IKEB009/2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim - determine the immediate and lasting effects of Exergaming frequency on work performance, health, motor, and cognitive function in clerical employees.

Full description

Hypothesis - In sedentary clerical workers the introduction of even 1 session / week exercise can cause lasting and correlated improvements in work, motor, and cognitive function, and effect which plateaus at 2 compared with 3 sessions / week. However, 6 months follow up would show residual effects only at the 3/week frequency in those who had become sedentary again.

Enrollment: 3 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age
• active worker
• no detected neurological status

Exclusion criteria

• Sever heart problem
• Sever demeanor
• Alkoholism
• Drug problems

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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3 participants in 3 patient groups

Exergame 3/week

Experimental group

Description:

The group does active training for 8 weeks after not training.

Treatment:

Other: Exergaming 3/week

Exergame 2/week

Experimental group

Description:

The group does active training for 8 weeks after not training.

Treatment:

Other: Exergame 2/week

Healthy control / Exergame 1/week

Experimental group

Description:

In the first 8 week-long only control group, The group will do 1 training/week for the next 8 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Healthy control / Exergaming 1/week