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Table 1_Effects of AI-assisted wushu training on mental health, cognitive performance, and cardiovascular function in university students: a quasi-experimental study.xlsx Jiannan Yang (16455240) Ziyin Zhang (3389474) Ziwu Li (25079737) Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified artificial intelligence campus health promotion cardiovascular function cognitive performance martial arts mental health university students Background<p>In this quasi-experimental study, we examined whether AI-assisted wushu (Chinese martial arts) routine training, delivered through camera-based immediate post-performance movement feedback, was associated with greater improvements in mental health, cognitive performance, and cardiovascular function than conventional wushu instruction among university students.</p>Methods<p>A campus-based, two-group, quasi-experimental pre–post design with non-randomized allocation by course section was conducted over 6 weeks among 298 physical education undergraduates (n = 149 per group). Outcomes included perceived stress, anxiety, psychological well-being, and emotion regulation (mental health); Stroop, digit-span, n-back, and Trail-Making Test performance and a composite executive-function index (cognitive performance); and resting heart rate, blood pressure, heart-rate variability, vital capacity, and heart-rate recovery (cardiovascular function). Post-intervention group differences were modeled with ANCOVA adjusting for baseline scores, age, sex, and BMI; associations between movement-quality gain and outcome change were examined with Pearson correlation and covariate-adjusted bootstrapped mediation, with false discovery rate correction applied.</p>Results<p>Groups did not differ significantly at baseline (all p > 0.07). Both groups improved on every outcome (all p < 0.001), and after adjustment the AI-assisted group showed somewhat larger gains, including for perceived stress (adjusted mean difference −1.20, 95% CI − 1.74 to −0.66), psychological well-being (+1.15, 95% CI 0.39 to 1.91), n-back accuracy (+2.37, 95% CI 1.59 to 3.15), the executive-function index (+0.12, 95% CI 0.07 to 0.18), resting heart rate (−1.09 bpm, 95% CI − 1.58 to −0.60), and vital capacity (+51.6 mL, 95% CI 34.8 to 68.4; all p < 0.03, retained after FDR correction). Movement-quality gain correlated modestly with cognitive-affective but not cardiovascular improvement (r = 0.17–0.22, p < 0.01), and partially mediated group effects on emotion regulation and executive function.</p>Conclusion<p>These findings therefore support a multiple-pathway interpretation of the incremental AI-feedback effect rather than a single motor-skill mechanism. Given the non-randomized design, these associations are preliminary rather than definitive evidence of causal benefit; randomized, longer-term studies with appropriate active controls are needed to confirm mechanisms, durability, and generalizability.</p> 2026-09-21T04:26:27Z Dataset Dataset 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1932711.s001 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Table_1_Effects_of_AI-assisted_wushu_training_on_mental_health_cognitive_performance_and_cardiovascular_function_in_university_students_a_quasi-experimental_study_xlsx/33948772 CC BY 4.0