The Impact of Brief One-time Education and Coach Encouragement on Hydration Status in Child Judo Athletes

Kastamonu University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dehydration; Dehydration in Children

Treatments: Behavioral: Hydration-Coach Encouragement; Behavioral: Short Hydration Informative Session

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06992817

E.912346

Details and patient eligibility

About

Due to the lack of any comparative study related to effect of different hydration processes, this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of coach encouragement and hydration education in maintaining hydration status in child judo athletes

Full description

Forty-seven athletes participated in a four-day training camp, during which hydration status was assessed before and after training sessions under three different conditions: no intervention (control), coach-guided fluid intake encouragement, and pre-training brief one-time hydration education. Athletes were unaware of the intervention conditions assigned to each day, and the educational session was delivered without emphasizing its experimental nature. To minimize potential carryover effects, the sequence of interventions was fixed. Hydration status was objectively monitored using urine specific gravity (USG) and urine color (UC) measurements.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 13 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• having at least three years of judo experience
• having at least a green belt
• being healthy enough to attend all training sessions during the camp.

Exclusion criteria

• having less than three years of judo experience
• having orange belt or lower
• not being healthy enough to attend all training sessions during the camp.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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74 participants in 3 patient groups

No-intervention (Control)

No Intervention group

Description:

This arm did not receive any intervention. They completed the training session without any encouragement related to fluid intake.

Coach encouragement (Intervention 1)

Experimental group

Description:

During this intervention, athletes were encouraged by their coaches to consume fluids during the training.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Hydration-Coach Encouragement

Hydration education (Intervention 2)

Experimental group

Description:

During this interventio, athletes were given a brief hydration education before the training session.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Short Hydration Informative Session