International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
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Department of Physical Education, Shanxi Normal University, Taiyuan, China

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• Research Article   
  Effects of a 16-week Basketball-Focused Sports Intervention on the Executive Functions of Male Attendees at a Compulsory-Isolation Drug Rehabilitation Centre
  Author(s): Leqin Chen*, Yini Wu, Yanjun He and Qianqian Li
  
  Research has shown that sports and exercise may be an effective treatment for drug rehabilitation. This study examines the effects of basketball on the executive functions of male attendees at a compulsory-isolation drug rehabilitation centre. Data were collected from 40 male participants via convenience sampling from a compulsory-isolation drug rehabilitation centre in Linfen, Shanxi Province and divided into an intervention and a control group. The intervention group participated in 16 weeks of a basketball sports intervention, while the control group received the usual interventions. At three time points- baseline, 8 weeks after the intervention, and 16 weeks after the intervention, three components of the participants’ executive functions-inhibition, updating, and shifting—were assessed using Flanker tasks, 2-back tasks, and more-odd shifting.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2329-9096.23.11.663

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