NCT04108689

Internet-based Acceptance and Commitment Training for Elite Ice Hockey Players

Completed NA Last updated 25 March 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing I-ACT in Performance Enhancement in 57 participants. Completed in 12 March 2020.

Timeline

9 September 2019

Primary endpoint
12 March 2020

12 March 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Karolinska Institutet
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	57
Start date	9 September 2019
Primary completion	12 March 2020
Estimated completion	12 March 2020
Sites	1 location across Sweden

Drugs / interventions tested

• I-ACT

Conditions studied

• Performance Enhancement — all drugs for Performance Enhancement →
• Performance Anxiety — all drugs for Performance Anxiety →
• Mental Health — all drugs for Mental Health →

Sponsor

Karolinska Institutet

Who can join

15 and older, any sex, with Performance Enhancement or Performance Anxiety. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The aim of this study is to investigate whether an internet-based psychological training program will enhance performance and affect mental health related factors in elite ice hockey players. The psychological training program is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a modern form of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and is delivered over the internet (hence called "I-ACT"). Elite players in Sweden will be invited before the 2019/2020 season. I-ACT will start for enrolled participants during the first week of October 2019 (30th September- 2nd October depending on the schedule of the particular league; approximately 5 games have then been played in the leagues eligible for participation). I-ACT consists of seven weekly modules/chapters with ACT content and participants also have a psychological trainer in the program that they can contact via a chat function on the web platform. Participants will have completed I-ACT the 17th of November 2019. When I-ACT starts in October, other eligible players will have the opportunity to leave their notice of interest for participation in the study and to take part of I-ACT in a later stage of the season. This concurrent "waiting list" is not a waiting list control group in any sense. It only gives further eligible players the opportunity to enroll in the study for a consecutive start of the psychological training program. I-ACT will start for this second group of players during the last week in november (25th November 2019), and finish I-ACT the 12th January 2020. These two consecutive groups of I-ACT participants will be considered the experimental group. However, due to the length of the ice hockey season the second group will only have follow-up measurements at 1 month for female players (the women's league ends in February 2020) and 2 months for male players (the men's leagues ends in March 2020). Official statistics will be collected from the leagues and enrolled participants will be compared to non-participant players in the leagues to compare the effectiveness of I-ACT on ice hockey performance. Only within-group comparisons will be made for secondary outcome measures.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.