Effect of orienteering exercises on children s executive function / 中国学校卫生

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To explore the effect of orienteering exercises on the improvement of children s executive function, and to explore the relationship between executive function and orienteering intervention to provide theoretical support.@*Methods@#Forty children from the fourth grade of Zhonghai the First Experimental Primary School in Changchun City were selected as the experimental subjects, 20 as the experimental group (10 males, 10 females) and 20 as the control group (10 males, 10 females). The functional changes of executive function subfunctions (inhibitory function, conversion function, refresh function) before and after orienteering exercises intervention were measured by More odd shifting, 1 back and Flanker.@*Results@#After intervention, the inhibitory function, conversion function and refresh function were significantly decreased in the experimental group (10.29±15.99, 295.19±189.76, 642.85±220.78)ms compared with before intervention (25.62±10.18, 616.04±287.92, 1 051.25±275.00)ms (F=12.52, 20.76, 20.89, P<0.01), while there was no significant change in the control group (P>0.05). In this study, neither gender main effect nor interaction between sex × group, sex × time and sex × time × group were found (P>0.05).@*Conclusion@#Orienteering exercises can significantly improve children s executive function, which are not vaired by sex.