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Functional Training and Dual-Task Training Improve the Executive Function of Older Women.

ABSTRACT: Functional training (FT) is a type of multicomponent training with emphasis on activities of daily living that stimulate different physical capacities in only one session. Dual-task training (DTT) is a type of training that simultaneously applies cognitive and motor stimuli. We investigated the effects of sixteen weeks of FT and DTT and eight weeks of detraining on older women's inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. Sixty-two older women (66.9 ± 5.4 years; 27.7 ± 3.9 kg/m²) completed a 16-week intervention program comprising the FT (n = 31) and DTT (n = 31), and 43 returned after the detraining period. We used the Stroop Color Word Color test to evaluate inhibitory control, the Corsi Block Test to assess working memory, and the Trail Making Test to evaluate cognitive flexibility. Only DTT reduced the congruent response time between the pre-test and post-test (d= -0.64; p < 0.001), with no difference between the post-test and the detraining values (d = 1.13; p < 0.001). Both groups reduced the incongruent response time between the pre-test and post-test (FT: d = -0.61; p = 0.002; DTT: d= -0.59; p = 0.002) without a difference between groups. There were no significant differences in working memory and cognitive flexibility. Sixteen weeks of FT and DTT increased the inhibitory control of older women but not the working memory and cognitive flexibility, and these effects persisted after eight weeks of detraining.

SUBMITTER: Pantoja-Cardoso A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10514855 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Functional Training and Dual-Task Training Improve the Executive Function of Older Women.

Pantoja-Cardoso Alan A Aragão-Santos Jose Carlos JC Santos Poliana de Jesus PJ Dos-Santos Ana Carolina AC Silva Salviano Resende SR Lima Newton Benites Carvalho NBC Vasconcelos Alan Bruno Silva ABS Fortes Leonardo de Sousa LS Da Silva-Grigoletto Marzo Edir ME

Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) 20230822 5

Functional training (FT) is a type of multicomponent training with emphasis on activities of daily living that stimulate different physical capacities in only one session. Dual-task training (DTT) is a type of training that simultaneously applies cognitive and motor stimuli. We investigated the effects of sixteen weeks of FT and DTT and eight weeks of detraining on older women's inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. Sixty-two older women (66.9 ± 5.4 years; 27.7 ± 3.9 kg/ ...[more]

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