Wheelchair Basketball and Attention Training

Bezmialem Vakif University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Disability

Treatments: Other: Attention skills training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06565130

2022/286

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this interventional study is to evaluate the effect of attention training on performance in wheelchair basketball players. The main question it aims to answer is:

Does attention training have an effect on the performance of wheelchair basketball players? Participants will participate attention training from an occupational therapy perspective.

Full description

The attention skills of the athletes will be evaluated with a competition-like designed assessment session. Then, the planned 10-week intervention program will be carried out as one session per week. After the intervention program, the evaluation session will be repeated and the results will be recorded. Then, it will be evaluated whether there is improvement in the attention skills of the athletes. The results obtained will be important for athletes, coaches and professionals working in this field.

Enrollment: 9 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Actively active in a regional wheelchair basketball team for at least 6 months.
• Volunteering to participate in the research.
• Being literate.

Exclusion criteria

• Having a neurological or cognitive disorder other than a physical disability.
• Being colorblind.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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9 participants in 1 patient group

Attention Skills Training

Other group

Description:

Intervention plan, which will begin by talking about the importance of attention in sports; It will consist of different tasks that include sub-parameters of attention, such as maintaining attention, shifting attention, focusing attention and splitting attention.

Treatment:

Other: Attention skills training