Health-related Physical Fitness and Executive Function in Older Adults: A Prospective Study

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Conditions studied: Older Adults (65 Years and Older), Fitness Testing, Executive Function (Cognition), Prospective Study, Event-Related Potentials

In brief

This study aims to explore the relationship between health-related physical fitness and behavioural and electrophysiological aspects of cool and hot executive function in older adults through a year prospective study design. The main questions it aims to answer whether changes in health-related physical fitness will positively predict changes in behavioural and electrophysiological aspects of cool and hot executive functions in older adults. The participants will be asked to complete pre-test, a one-year observation period, and post-test. Both pre- and post-tests will measure health-related physical fitness, executive function, and various demographic variables and covariates. Health-related physical fitness assessments include cardiorespiratory endurance (YMCA submaximal cycle test), muscular strength (grip strength, chest press, and leg press), muscular endurance (30-second chair stand, 30-second bicep curl), flexibility (range of motion), and balance (Balance Error Scoring System). Executive function will be measured using the Stroop test and emotional Stroop test, with concurrent EEG recording of brain activity. Demographic variables and covariates include sex, age, years of education, annual income, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) Taiwan short form, World Health Organisation Quality of Life Brief Assessment (WHOQOL-BREF) Taiwan version, Geriatric Depression Scale, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), digit span tests, and step count recorded by mobile phones or watches over the previous month, resting heart rate, and resting blood pressure. No interventions will be conducted during the one-year observation period, maintaining participants' normal daily living conditions.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT07048561
Run by: National Taiwan Normal University
People needed: 200
Starts: 2025-06-01
Expected to finish: 2027-03-31
Last updated by the study team: 2025-07-02

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

Age 65 or above.
Able to engage in fitness testing.
Normal vision or corrected-to-normal vision.

You may not qualify if…

Suffering from cardiopulmonary-related diseases.
Suffering from cognitive, neurological or psychiatric disorders (e.g., dementia, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, depression, schizophrenia, etc.).
Suffering from infectious diseases (e.g., hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease).
Having a history of drug or alcohol abuse.
Having colour vision deficiency (e.g., colour blindness).
Having a family history of aneurysm.
Taking medications that affect brain function.

Where it is running

National Taiwan Normal University — Taipei, Taiwan (enrolling)

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