Effect of aerobic exercise on executive function on primary school children / Hanady Abdallah Mouhamed ; Supervised Amira Mohamed Eltohamy , Mohamed Ahmed Arafa

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Growth and Developmental Disorders in Pediatrics

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of acute bout of aerobic exercises on selected executive functions. Counterbalanced, crossover, randomized trial was performed. Subjects were thirty two children (18 boys and 14 girls) children ranged in age between 6 to 11 years old with a mean (±SD) =9.56±1.34 years. they were randomly assinged to two different groups: (1) aerobic exercise session, included 15 minutes of jumping on a trampoline at 60% of target heart rate (2) control(resting) session group included 15 minutes of seating without any physical or mental activity. Before and after each session, executive functions were measured by the eriksen flanker test ,the color word stroop test and the tower of Hanoi task. Results: indicated that there is a significant increase in accuracy in both eriksen flanker test and Stroop test and there is a significant decrease in reaction time (congruent and incongurent) in both stroop test in eriksen flanker test and there significant improvement in the solving time of the tower of Hanoi task in the aerobic exercise group and there is no significant chang in accuracy in both eriksen flanker test and stroop test and there is no significant chang in reaction time (congurant and incongurent) in both Stroop test in eriksen flanker test and there no significant chang in the solving time of the tower of Hanoi task in the control(resting) group. Conclusion; these findings suggest that acute bouts of aerobic exercise on trampoline have passive effect on executive functions(inhibitory control and problem solving, planning) in primary school children

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