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Health condition
Physical activity, exercise, cognitive performance, school grades, physical fitness, exercise intensity, exercise duration, gym, school, adolescents
Beweging, cognitieve prestatie, schoolcijfers, leren, school, adolescenten, bewegingsinspanning, bewegingsduur
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Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
Cognitive performance on a task measuring selective attention and a task measuring working memory.
Secondary outcome
-Heart rate variability
-Physical fitness
-School grades (CITO scores)
Background summary
Participation in physical activity (PA) has received particular attention in the scientific literature, not only for its beneficial effects on physical and emotional health, but also for its positive effects on cognitive functioning. A single bout of physical exercise has been found to increase performance on tasks measuring higher order cognitive processes, such as attention and working memory.
The majority of studies performed to investigate the relationship between PA and cognitive performance, implement exercise sessions of approximately 30 minutes at a moderate to vigorous level of intensity. Such long exercise sessions are difficult to implement in a school setting, as such, it is necessary to assess whether the effects of physical activity on cognitive performance are present after shorter bouts of exercise.
In this study, we investigate PA-related effects on cognitive performance after engaging in physical exercise at 10, 20 and 30 minutes.
Study objective
In this study we will investigate whether the effects of physical activity on cognitive performance are present after short (10 minutes), medium (20 minutes) or longer (30 minutes) bouts of moderate exercise in order to establish the feasibility of implementing exercise programs in a school setting.
Study design
This is a cross-sectional study, therefore, the acute effects of physical activity will be measured at one timepoint per group.
Intervention
Group 1) Acute effects of 10 minutes of physical activity at a moderate level of intensity.
Group 2) Acute effects of 20 minutes of physical activity at a moderate level of intensity.
Group 3) Acute effects of 30 minutes of physical activity at a moderate level of intensity.
Control conditions
Group 1) Reading, filling in questionnaires and solving puzzels for 10 minutes.
Group 2) Reading, filling in questionnaires and solving puzzels for 20 minutes.
Group 3) Reading, filling in questionnaires and solving puzzels for 30 minutes.
P.O. Box 7057
1007 MB Amsterdam
A. Singh
van der Boechorststraat 7
room: H-531
Amsterdam 1081 BT
The Netherlands
+31 20 4448382
a.singh@vumc.nl
P.O. Box 7057
1007 MB Amsterdam
A. Singh
van der Boechorststraat 7
room: H-531
Amsterdam 1081 BT
The Netherlands
+31 20 4448382
a.singh@vumc.nl
Inclusion criteria
Dutch adolescents following elementary and high school (11-14 years).
Exclusion criteria
-none-
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL4758 |
| NTR-old | NTR4886 |
| Other | METc VUmc: 2014.363 : EMGO+ institute: WC2014-020 |