NCT06212986

Enhancing Psychological Skills and Well-being in Sport Through a Blended Intervention: a Controlled Study With Perform-UP Tennis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Mental preparation is a fundamental aspect of athletic performance. The investigators present here an experiment aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of a blended intervention to promote mindfulness and self-confidence and a reduction of anxiety among professional athletes. Perform-UP Tennis is an application that provides a weekly mental training program to be integrated into the athlete's daily routine. The intervention included eight weekly modules with variable and progressive training and relaxation exercises. Meetings with the athletes took place every 2 weeks. The study involved 41 tennis players who were randomly assigned to either the intervention or the control group.

Conditions

• Psychological Well-Being

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Promotion of mental training through mobile application Perform-UP Tennis	Perform-UP Tennis is a sport specific mental training app that integrates breathing, relaxation and na-ture-based guided imagery exercises and aims to promote emotional well-being and the enhancement of mental skills. The app techniques are integrated into a single gradual path that involves increasingly complex breathing and relaxation exercises with increasing duration. The intervention consists of eight weekly modules over a period of 8 weeks with progressive exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-30
• Primary completion: 2021-10-30
• Completion: 2022-04-30
• First posted: 2024-01-19
• Last updated: 2024-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy