Effects of Music on Table Tennis Stroke Performance Among Mentally Fatigued University Players

Ding Cong

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Fatigue

Treatments: Other: Inducing positive emotion music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06028698

DingCong

Details and patient eligibility

About

The current study is going to investigate the music intervention on the table tennis stroke performance among table tennis stroke performance. The subjects will be instructed to listen to 3 minutes, which can facilitate the recovering process for scope of attention and thought-action repertoire. Thus, to see the improvement in stroke performance.

Full description

The intervention of this study is music, specifically, instruct subjects to listen inducing positive emotion music due to positive emotion benefit to cognition performance.

The condition of mental fatigue will be induced by Stroop task. Before the intervention or process of listening music, the pre-test will be recorded to compare the post-test value of table tennis stroke performance.

Moreover, the different music intervention will be implemented to identify the optimal selection.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• University table tennis players. 18-24 years.
• Both pen-holder and shake-hand play styles.
• At least played from the senior school.
• At least have 3 years' training experience.

Exclusion criteria

• Color blindness.
• Any disease or sleep disorder.
• Smoker or drunker

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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64 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

Positive emotion music fatigue group

Experimental group

Description:

After mental fatigue inducement, participants will be instructed listening to music pieces for inducing positive emotion music.

Treatment:

Other: Inducing positive emotion music

Fatigue control group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

After mental fatigue inducement, participants will be instructed to sit and relax for the same duration as intervention group.

Treatment:

Other: Inducing positive emotion music

No Fatigue positive emotion music group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

participants will not be induced mental fatigue, but will be instructed listening to music pieces for inducing positive emotion music.

Treatment:

Other: Inducing positive emotion music

No fatigue control group

No Intervention group

Description:

participants will not be induced mental fatigue. Also, participants will not receive music intervention，just sit and relax.