NCT06337929

Effects of Capoeira on the Physical and Psychological Performance of Adults

Effects of Capoeira Training on Physical Performance and Psychological Aspects Performance of Adults: a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universidade Federal do vale do São Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 59 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Regular physical activity (PA) promotes benefits for both physical and mental health. Among the numerous PA\'s with a collective nature that can add to the existing recommendations, combat sports training interventions are viable alternatives since they integrate benefits in different aspects for health. In this way, capoeira can be a strategy for the prescription of exercise, aiming to serve participants collectively and maintaining the adherence of this practitioner to the intervention. However, little is known about this issue. So, the aim of the present study is to verify the effect of 12 weeks of capoeira training on the physical performance and psychological aspects of previously physically inactive adults.

Detailed description

The study will be conducted as a controlled, randomized, two-group parallel and superiority clinical trial with a 1:1 allocation ratio. The sample will be divided into two groups: 1) capoeira training group (n = 76; GCAP) and 2) control group (n = 76; GCONT). Participants aged between 18 and 59 years, classified as irregularly active A by the international physical activity questionnaire, who are not engaged in training programs and are not former athletes, will be eligible. Smokers and patients with respiratory or cardiovascular diseases will be excluded from the sample. Anamnesis and anthropometric evaluation will initially be performed. To evaluate the physical aspects, specific tests will be applied to determine aerobic and anaerobic fitness, strength and power of lower limbs, balance, motor coordination and questionnaires will be applied to verify the psychological aspects, such as emotional intelligence, motivation and quality of life. The descriptive analysis of the outcomes will be reported. The normality of the data will be checked by visual inspection of the Q-Q plot and statistically tested by the Shapiro-Wilk test. Two-way ANOVA for repeated measures will be employed to verify the time\*group interaction. The effect size (ES) of the intervention on dependent variables will be calculated and the difference between the ES and its respective 95% confidence interval will be calculated to estimate the magnitude of the response in the intervention. The alpha adopted will be 5% and the software used for data analysis will be Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences 25.0.

Conditions

• Training
• Mental Health
• Physical Fitness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	CAPOEIRA TRAINING	The protocol of the capoeira training program and the movements (blows, dodges and flourishes) will be based on the Capoeira Abadá method.
OTHER	CONTROL GROUP	The protocol of the control group will be based on an intervention with capoeira movements, however, without important cardiovascular, neuromuscular and metabolic demands, being an activity with stretching movements from positions of the capoeira modality itself.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-01
• Primary completion: 2024-07-15
• Completion: 2024-12-13
• First posted: 2024-03-29
• Last updated: 2024-03-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil