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The effectiveness of Tai Chi on the physical and psychological well-being of college students: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: The physical and mental health of college-age youths tends to continuously decline around the world. It is therefore important to promote health during this period. As a traditional Chinese mind-body exercise, Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) may be an available selection. However for the college stu...

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Autores principales: Zheng, Guohua, Lan, Xiulu, Li, Moyi, Ling, Kun, Lin, Hui, Chen, Lidian, Tao, Jing, Li, Junzhe, Zheng, Xin, Chen, Bai, Fang, Qianying
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4000322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24742146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-129
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author Zheng, Guohua
Lan, Xiulu
Li, Moyi
Ling, Kun
Lin, Hui
Chen, Lidian
Tao, Jing
Li, Junzhe
Zheng, Xin
Chen, Bai
Fang, Qianying
author_facet Zheng, Guohua
Lan, Xiulu
Li, Moyi
Ling, Kun
Lin, Hui
Chen, Lidian
Tao, Jing
Li, Junzhe
Zheng, Xin
Chen, Bai
Fang, Qianying
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description BACKGROUND: The physical and mental health of college-age youths tends to continuously decline around the world. It is therefore important to promote health during this period. As a traditional Chinese mind-body exercise, Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) may be an available selection. However for the college student population, the evidence is unclear as to whether TCC can be recommended as an effective exercise for promoting their physical and psychological wellbeing. Therefore high quality, rigorous, prospective, and well-controlled randomized trials are needed to further understand TCC serving as a psychological and physical intervention in college age populations. METHOD/DESIGN: We designed a randomized, single-blind, parallel-controlled trial with a sample size of 206 participants. All the participants who meet the inclusion criteria come from Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (FJTCM). Participants of the TCC training group will receive TCC training at a frequency of five days per week for one hour per day for 12 weeks. No specific exercise will be administered on the participants in the control group. Both physical and mental health outcomes, including balance ability, lower limb proprioception, flexibility, physical fitness, self-efficacy, psychological symptoms, attention span, stress, self-esteem, mood and mindfulness, quality of life, and quality of sleep. Safety outcomes will be evaluated by blinded operators at baseline, 12 and 24-weeks post-intervention. DISCUSSION: This protocol presents an objective design of a randomized, single-blind trial that will test the effectiveness and safety of TCC on the physical and psychological wellbeing of college students. If the outcome is positive, the results will provide higher quality evidence of TCC on the physical and mental health of college age populations. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry: ChiCTR-TRC-13003328.
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spelling pubmed-40003222014-05-08 The effectiveness of Tai Chi on the physical and psychological well-being of college students: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial Zheng, Guohua Lan, Xiulu Li, Moyi Ling, Kun Lin, Hui Chen, Lidian Tao, Jing Li, Junzhe Zheng, Xin Chen, Bai Fang, Qianying Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: The physical and mental health of college-age youths tends to continuously decline around the world. It is therefore important to promote health during this period. As a traditional Chinese mind-body exercise, Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) may be an available selection. However for the college student population, the evidence is unclear as to whether TCC can be recommended as an effective exercise for promoting their physical and psychological wellbeing. Therefore high quality, rigorous, prospective, and well-controlled randomized trials are needed to further understand TCC serving as a psychological and physical intervention in college age populations. METHOD/DESIGN: We designed a randomized, single-blind, parallel-controlled trial with a sample size of 206 participants. All the participants who meet the inclusion criteria come from Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (FJTCM). Participants of the TCC training group will receive TCC training at a frequency of five days per week for one hour per day for 12 weeks. No specific exercise will be administered on the participants in the control group. Both physical and mental health outcomes, including balance ability, lower limb proprioception, flexibility, physical fitness, self-efficacy, psychological symptoms, attention span, stress, self-esteem, mood and mindfulness, quality of life, and quality of sleep. Safety outcomes will be evaluated by blinded operators at baseline, 12 and 24-weeks post-intervention. DISCUSSION: This protocol presents an objective design of a randomized, single-blind trial that will test the effectiveness and safety of TCC on the physical and psychological wellbeing of college students. If the outcome is positive, the results will provide higher quality evidence of TCC on the physical and mental health of college age populations. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry: ChiCTR-TRC-13003328. BioMed Central 2014-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4000322/ /pubmed/24742146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-129 Text en Copyright © 2014 Zheng et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Study Protocol
Zheng, Guohua
Lan, Xiulu
Li, Moyi
Ling, Kun
Lin, Hui
Chen, Lidian
Tao, Jing
Li, Junzhe
Zheng, Xin
Chen, Bai
Fang, Qianying
The effectiveness of Tai Chi on the physical and psychological well-being of college students: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title The effectiveness of Tai Chi on the physical and psychological well-being of college students: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_full The effectiveness of Tai Chi on the physical and psychological well-being of college students: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_fullStr The effectiveness of Tai Chi on the physical and psychological well-being of college students: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed The effectiveness of Tai Chi on the physical and psychological well-being of college students: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_short The effectiveness of Tai Chi on the physical and psychological well-being of college students: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_sort effectiveness of tai chi on the physical and psychological well-being of college students: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4000322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24742146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-129
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