Personalized Recommendation System for Sport Activities

Personalized Recommendation System of Specific Challenges for Sport Activities: Practical Approach to Football

The goal of this clinical trial is to test and compare the effects of a tailored algorithm recommendation of sport activities concreted in challenges to improve some critical performance dimensions.

Q1: Improving participant performance is achieved by using personalized sports activity recommendation using an algorithm and tracking compliance using a decentralized application (dApp)? Q2: Are participants satisfied with the performance and simplicity of the dApp used?

Participants will be asked to do specific activities recommended by the developed recommender system. The activities to be carried out will be conditioned by the profile obtained from each participant at the beginning of the intervention. They will consist of reinforcement activities for the dimensions with the lowest scores.

Researchers will compare a experimental group and a control group to see if the dimensions assessed at the beginning of the intervention were improved.

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: Health Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Experimental group; Other: Control group

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 47
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Pontevedra, Spain, 36005
    • University of Vigo
    • Contact: Juan López-Barreiro, BsC; Phone Number: 610669712; Email: juan.lopez.barreiro@uvigo.gal
    • Principal Investigator: Juan López-Barreiro, BsC
    • Principal Investigator: Jose Luis García-Soidán, PhD
    • Principal Investigator: Luis Álvarez-Sabucedo, PhD
    • Principal Investigator: Juan-Manuel Santos-Gago, PhD

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Amateur football players.
• Aged between 14 and 18 years old.
• Without any injury.
• The ones who can attend the assessing sessions and fill in the informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Aged different from the indicated above.
• Injured.
• Missing one of the assessing sessions.
• Not performing the proposed training twice, or not registering two or more training sessions.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental group; This group will carry out the tailored training proposed by de recommender system, and followed and encouraged by the blockchain dApp.	Other: Experimental group; Tailored training based on the profile of each participant.
Active Comparator: Control group; This group will continue with the traditional training planned.	Other: Control group; They will continue with the traditional training.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Score of the system usability at the end of the intervention	System Usability Scale is a scale from 0 to 100 points to assess the usability of the system used in the intervention.	At the end of the intervention (8 weeks)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Squat Jump (SJ)	Lower body capacity assessed using the SJ	At baseline and after 8 weeks
Abdominal planck (AP)	Core capacity assessed using the abdominal plank lasting time	At baseline and after 8 weeks
Push ups (PU)	Upper body capacity assessed using the number of pushups performed in one minute	At baseline and after 8 weeks
Cooper Test (GE)	General endurance assessed using the Cooper Test	At baseline and after 8 weeks
15m sprint (SE-15)	Special endurance assessed using the 15m sprint	At baseline and after 8 weeks
Countermovement Jump (CMJ)	Special endurance assessed using the CMJ	At baseline and after 8 weeks

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Sociodemographic outcomes	Body weight, height, age and gender.	At baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Vigo

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 15, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 15, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): July 15, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 27, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 9, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): January 11, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 18, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 17, 2024
• Last Verified: April 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Training; Performance; Football; Reward; Gamification; Recommender system; Blockchain; NFT
• Other Study ID Numbers: 09-181223; ED481A-2021/350 (Other Grant/Funding Number: Xunta de Galicia)

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No