Enhancing Psychological Skills and Well-being in Sport Through a Blended Intervention: a Controlled Study With Perform-UP Tennis

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychological Well-Being

Treatments: Device: Promotion of mental training through mobile application Perform-UP Tennis

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06212986

4221_2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

Mental preparation is a fundamental aspect of athletic performance. The investigators present here an experiment aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of a blended intervention to promote mindfulness and self-confidence and a reduction of anxiety among professional athletes. Perform-UP Tennis is an application that provides a weekly mental training program to be integrated into the athlete's daily routine. The intervention included eight weekly modules with variable and progressive training and relaxation exercises. Meetings with the athletes took place every 2 weeks. The study involved 41 tennis players who were randomly assigned to either the intervention or the control group.

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being tennis players with a minimum age of 14
• being fluent in Italian
• having a smartphone with an Internet connection

Exclusion criteria

• having hearing difficulties
• not playing tennis
• being younger than 14 years old
• not having a good knowledge of Italian

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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41 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental blended group

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental blended group (perform-up group) used the application Perform-UP Tennis on their own and also met up with a professional sports psychologist every 2 weeks for debriefing. Participants were asked to answer a series of questionnaires in two separate phases.

Treatment:

Device: Promotion of mental training through mobile application Perform-UP Tennis

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants were asked to answer a series of questionnaires in two separate phases, but they only carried out their classic technical training without integrating the mental training program with the app Perform-UP Tennis.