Impact of background music listening on anxiety in cancer patients undergoing initial radiation therapy: a randomized clinical trial.

Background: Patients undergoing radiation therapy (RT) often experience anxiety, which may jeopardize the treatment success. The efficacy of music interventions in reducing anxiety remains contentious. This randomized trial aimed to evaluate the impact of music listening on anxiety symptoms in patients undergoing initial RT.

Effectiveness of multimedia courses in improving self-care among patients with breast cancer undergoing radiotherapy.

Background: Ninety percent of patients receiving radiation therapy experience side effects. Busy schedules and intensive health education programs may lead to incomplete education content delivery and inaccurate patient self-care implementation. This study investigated whether multimedia health education improves the accuracy of patient self-care implementation compared with paper-based education.

Stereopsis and Response Times between Collegiate Table Tennis Athletes and Non-Athletes.

Table tennis athletes and non-athletes potentially differ in stereopsis and eye-hand response times (RT), but whether stereopsis correlates with response time has scarcely been discussed. We aimed to compare stereopsis and RT between collegiate table tennis athletes and non-athletes and to examine the correlation between stereopsis and RT. From December 2016 to October 2019, table tennis athletes ( = 80) and non-athletes ( = 56) were recruited.

Association of sports vision with age, gender, and static visual acuity among nonathletic population.

Purpose: Excellent vision is essential to performing well in sports. Sports vision includes visual, perceptual, cognitive, and oculomotor tasks that enable athletes to process and respond to what is seen. We aimed to examined how sports vision parameters - dynamic visual acuity (DVA), eye movement (EM), peripheral vision (PV), and momentary vision (MV) - varied with age and sex and assessed how static visual acuity (SVA) affect sports vision performance.

Effects of combat training on visuomotor performance in children aged 9 to 12 years - an eye-tracking study.

Background: Data on visuomotor performance in combat training and the effects of combat training on visuomotor performance are limited. This study aimed to investigate the effects of a specially designed combat sports (CS) training program on the visuomotor performance levels of children.

Methods: A pre-post comparative design was implemented.

Training effect of a stationary preprogrammed target dummy on visual response time and contest performance of karate athletes.

Background: Response time (RT) is crucial in karate athletes and can be trained. The aim of this study was to compare standing eye-hand RT and contest performance in nonelite karate athletes who underwent 6 weeks of training using either a stationary preprogrammed target dummy (experimental group) or traditional karate instruction (control group).

Methods: Forty male nonelite karate athletes (20 in each group) were recruited.