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Can Training Balance, or Enjoying Music, Improve Attention, Problem-solving and/or Behavior Control Abilities?
Led by University of British Columbia · Updated on 2024-05-10
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Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
100 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
U
University of British Columbia
Lead Sponsor
N
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This randomized controlled trial will investigate the hypothesis that since balance and executive functions (EFs) require a similar neural circuit and EFs are recruited when trying to maintain balance, that training balance might improve EFs as well as balance. There will be an active control condition (watching music videos) and a no-treatment condition. Children (18-12 years old) will be randomly assigned to one of these conditions for 12 weeks (36 per condition). The balance and music conditions will involve 15-min sessions 3x/week and a weekly check-in session with an investigator. Participants will be assessed pre-intervention, immediately post and 3-months post.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Can Training Balance, or Enjoying Music, Improve Attention, Problem-solving and/or Behavior Control Abilities?
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Children between 8 to 12 years old
You will not qualify if you...
- Children not fluent in English
- Children with performance over the 85th percentile at screening assessment of postural balance or executive functions
- Children taking any medication that might affect cognition (e.g., psychostimulants)
- Children undergoing executive function training
- Children undergoing other targeted balance training (e.g., dance, yoga, tai chi, martial arts)
- Children with severe anxiety that might make balance training distressing
- Children unable to perform simple balance exercises due to physical handicap, disability, or musculoskeletal injury
- Children with significant hearing loss or visual impairment even with correction
- Lack of a responsible person strong enough to spot the child during balance training weekly sessions if assigned to that intervention
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychiatry, UBC
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 2A1
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
P
Priscilla Paz, MD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Number of Arms
3
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