Psychomotor abilities of candidates for Polish Special Forces.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
24 03 2022
Historique:
received: 28 09 2021
accepted: 17 03 2022
entrez: 25 3 2022
pubmed: 26 3 2022
medline: 6 5 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Combat tasks involving special units often put a mental and physical strain on the soldiers. During the military operation, soldiers may struggle with multiple difficulties such as extreme physical effort, sleep deprivation, weather conditions, limited access to food and stress. These circumstances require a high level of cognitive ability (including psychomotor abilities) to overcome the physiological stress response and to be able to quickly and efficiently make decisions under stressful situations, especially in combat. The aim of the study was to assess the level of the psychomotor abilities of candidates for the Polish Special Forces. The study comprised 48 candidates for the Polish Special Forces (age: [Formula: see text]), 40 athletes (age: [Formula: see text]) and 40 non-athletes (age: 24). The study was performed using Test2Drive software. Four computer-based tests were used to assess the following psychomotor abilities: simple reaction time, choice reaction time, hand-eye coordination and two-dimensional visuomotor coordination/spatial orientation test (SPANT). The analysis demonstrated statistically significant differences in reaction time and motor time between the study groups. The shortest reaction time in each test was observed in athletes, while the shortest motor time was observed in soldiers. All the psychomotor tests, except for the number of correct answers in SPANT, demonstrated statistically significant differences between the studied groups. It was also found that military training had a positive effect on the motor time in every psychomotor test. As regards the reaction time, it was observed that the athletes were characterised with better reaction times than the special forces candidates. The study has confirmed that military training and sports training have a positive effect on the level of psychomotor abilities, especially motor time.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35332229
doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-09138-4
pii: 10.1038/s41598-022-09138-4
pmc: PMC8948284
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

5075

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Wojciech Paśko (W)

Institute of Physical Culture Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów University, Rzeszow, Poland. wopasko@ur.edu.pl.

Przemysław Guła (P)

Institute of Medical Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów University, Rzeszow, Poland.

Maciej Brożyna (M)

Institute of Physical Culture Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów University, Rzeszow, Poland.

Bartosz Dziadek (B)

Institute of Physical Culture Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów University, Rzeszow, Poland.

Emilian Zadarko (E)

Institute of Physical Culture Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów University, Rzeszow, Poland.

Maciej Śliż (M)

Institute of Physical Culture Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów University, Rzeszow, Poland.

Klementyna Polak (K)

Institute of Physical Culture Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów University, Rzeszow, Poland.

Krzysztof Przednowek (K)

Institute of Physical Culture Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów University, Rzeszow, Poland.

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