Effects of Basketball Program on Motor Skill and Interference Control in Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: an ERP study
| Autor: | Lin, Chi-Fang, 林琦方 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 107 Previous studies have reported an association between fundamental motor ability and inhibitory performance in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the cross-sectional design used in previous studies prevented the inference of a causal relationship. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of basketball intervention, a type of exercise focused on improving fundamental motor skills, on interference control (IC) (behavioral and event-related potential) and complex motor skills in children with ADHD. Twenty-four participants previously diagnosed with ADHD were assigned to either an exercise or a control condition, and the groups exchanged assignments half a year later. However, ten participants dropped out during the course. Therefore, this study was based on data from the remaining fourteen participants. The exercise condition consisted of an open-skill exercise (e.g., basketball exercise) program, three times per week, fifty minutes per session, for ten weeks, whereas the control condition was a classroom reading program. Results showed that the participants were able to complete 69.87 percent of the weekly basketball skills targets. However, neither motor skills nor IC were affected by the basketball skills exercise, possibly because of the small sample size due to dropout, or the basketball program was too specific to be generalized to fundamental motor skills. Future studies should consider developing strategies to prevent participant dropout to ensure enough participants for statistical power, as well as creating exercise programs that can improve general motor skills so that the relationship between fundamental motor skills and interference control can be further examined. |
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