Young Healthy Adults
Conditions
Keywords
Executive Functions, High Intensity Interval Training, Young Healthy Adults
Brief summary
To explore the sustainability of the acute effect of High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) on executive function in young adults.
Interventions
OTHERHigh Intensity Interval Training
Participants will receive a single session of HIIT, which last for 19 minutes in duration. During the HIIT session, participants will complete 2 minutes stretching warm-up exercise, followed by a video of exercises which will be projected on the screen to facilitate the participants to follow. The exercise in the video involves various combinations of aerobic and core resistance exercise such as squat jump, jump lunge, push up, burpee, mountain climber etc. The exercise involved bodyweight or minimal basic equipment only, the workout to rest ratio is 45 secs: 15 secs. Participants' heart rate will be kept surveillance and to maintain their respective heart rate attained 85% of aged predicted maximal heart rate during the workout period.
Sponsors
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 40 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Young adult aged 18-40 years old * No visionary defect or other sensory condition including uncorrected refractive defect and color blindness refraining the individual to be assessed by the tasks
Exclusion criteria
* With known neurological, cardiovascular, or other physical and mental conditions that limit the ability to safely participate in high-intensity interval training * With known specific learning disabilities * Known drug or alcohol abuse problems
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Stroop task | From baseline to 72 hours post intervention | Stroop Task is a neurocognitive test for the performance on inhibition control. Participants are shown a series of word colors that are either congruent or incongruent with the color of the word itself. The participant is required to respond to the color of the word and not the word itself. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Flanker Task | From baseline to 72 hours post intervention | Flanker Task is a neurocognitive test for the performance on inhibition control. Participants are shown a series of arrows. The participant is to respond to which way the center arrow is pointing; whether it is to the right or to the left |
| Trail making test (TMT) | From baseline to 72 hours post intervention | TMT is a neurocognitive test for the performance on cognitive flexibility. There are part A and part B in the TMT. The time required to completed part A as well as part B would be recorded separately, the difference in time in completing part B and part A (B-A) and the ratio of time in completing part A and part B (B/A) would be used as the interference score. |
| Wisconsin Card Sorting test (WCST) | From baseline to 72 hours post intervention | WCST is a neurocognitive test for the performance on cognitive flexibility. Participants will be presented with four response cards, which are of different geometric properties (number of objects, color of object and shape of objects), and one stimulus card at a time. Participants will be required to sort the stimulus card. There are 30 trials in the test, number of correct sorting will be recorded, and accuracy will be obtained as number of correct sorting divided by 30. |
| Change in accuracy as measured by the 2-back task | From baseline to 72 hours post intervention | 2-back task is a neurocognitive test for the performance on working memory. Participants are presented with a sequence of stimuli in character form. The task consists of indicating when the current stimulus matches the one from 2 steps earlier in the sequence. There are 48 trials in the task, the number of correct responses will be recorded. The accuracy will be obtained as number of correct responses divided by 39. |
Countries
Hong Kong
Contacts
Primary ContactFreddy Man Hin LAM, PhD
Outcome results
None listed