Cognitive Performance changes during a 20-day Winter Military Training Course and the Following 10-day Recovery Period
Introduction: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of a winter military field training course consisting of strenuous physical stressors (e.g. physical activity, sleep deprivation and cold weather) on cognitive performance among Finnish soldiers. Methods: Fifty-eight (age...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:10281297 2023-07-16T03:56:59+02:00 Cognitive Performance changes during a 20-day Winter Military Training Course and the Following 10-day Recovery Period Kallinen, Kari Ojanen, Tommi 2023-06-18 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10281297/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37331012 https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2225896 en eng Taylor & Francis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10281297/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37331012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2225896 © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. Int J Circumpolar Health Arctic Military Conference in Cold Weather Medicine Text 2023 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2225896 2023-06-25T00:59:14Z Introduction: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of a winter military field training course consisting of strenuous physical stressors (e.g. physical activity, sleep deprivation and cold weather) on cognitive performance among Finnish soldiers. Methods: Fifty-eight (age 19 ± 1 years, height 182 ± 6 cm, body mass 78.5 ± 7.2 kg) male soldiers took part in a 20-day military field training course in northern Finland. Cognitive performance was assessed before, during, and after the course four times on a tablet computer. Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) was used to assess soldier’s executive and inhibitory function. Baddeley’s 3-min reasoning task (BRT) was used to assess grammatical reasoning, and Change Blindness (CB) task was used to assess visual perception. Results: Strenuous winter field training had detrimental effects in all performance tests compared to baseline. SART response rate decreased 27.3% (p < 0.001), and BRT and CB task scores decreased 20.6% (p < 0.01) and 14.1% (p < .05), respectively. Conclusion: The present study showed a decline in soldier’s cognitive performance after 20-days of physically demanding winter military field training. To be able to optimise field training, it is important to be aware of how cognitive performance changes during military exercises and missions. Text Arctic Circumpolar Health Northern Finland PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic International Journal of Circumpolar Health 82 1 |
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Introduction: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of a winter military field training course consisting of strenuous physical stressors (e.g. physical activity, sleep deprivation and cold weather) on cognitive performance among Finnish soldiers. Methods: Fifty-eight (age 19 ± 1 years, height 182 ± 6 cm, body mass 78.5 ± 7.2 kg) male soldiers took part in a 20-day military field training course in northern Finland. Cognitive performance was assessed before, during, and after the course four times on a tablet computer. Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) was used to assess soldier’s executive and inhibitory function. Baddeley’s 3-min reasoning task (BRT) was used to assess grammatical reasoning, and Change Blindness (CB) task was used to assess visual perception. Results: Strenuous winter field training had detrimental effects in all performance tests compared to baseline. SART response rate decreased 27.3% (p < 0.001), and BRT and CB task scores decreased 20.6% (p < 0.01) and 14.1% (p < .05), respectively. Conclusion: The present study showed a decline in soldier’s cognitive performance after 20-days of physically demanding winter military field training. To be able to optimise field training, it is important to be aware of how cognitive performance changes during military exercises and missions. |
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