1. Reliability and Sensitivity of Reaction Time Measurements During Quasi-Realistic Soccer Situations
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Amador García-Ramos, Danica Janicijevic, Lazar Tomić, Bojan Leontijević, and Aleksandar Nedeljkovic
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Intraclass correlation ,Coefficient of variation ,education ,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation ,Audiology ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cognition ,0302 clinical medicine ,Rate of force development ,Physiology (medical) ,Soccer ,Reaction Time ,medicine ,Humans ,Force platform ,Sensitivity (control systems) ,Reliability (statistics) ,Mathematics ,Reproducibility of Results ,030229 sport sciences ,Neurology (clinical) ,human activities ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Reliability and sensitivity of reaction time (RT) during quasi-realistic soccer situations was explored in 10 professional soccer players (skilled; age = 20.9 ± 3.6 years) and 10 males without soccer experience (nonskilled; age = 23.4 ± 0.5 years). The participants were instructed to react as fast as possible to a stimulus presented via the video-based method while standing on force platforms. RT was computed as the difference between the instant when the rate of force development of any leg reaches 5% of its maximal value and the instant of stimulus presentation. The results revealed acceptable to high reliability of RT (intraclass correlation coefficient median = .90; coefficient of variation ≤ 5.83%), and shorter RT for skilled compared with nonskilled participants in three out of eight comparisons (effect size range = 1.00–1.41). The video-based methods can be confidently used to assess the RT in soccer players.
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- 2021