Influence of different mask types for protection against SARS-CoV-2 on cardiopulmonary performance and subjective impairment in children and adolescents at school
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- The study will examine the effects of mask wearing using physiological (e.g., respiratory minute volume, heart rate) and subjective parameters (e.g., mask wearing sensation questionnaires).
- Registration Number
- DRKS00031649
- Lead Sponsor
- Institut für Prävention und Arbeitsmedizin der DGUV, die Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung und die Unfallkassen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 40
Inclusion Criteria
- Age: 8-10 years or 12-14 years.
- Informed consent is available (from participant and parents)
- No acute illnesses
- No manifest cardiac or respiratory diseases
- No psychiatric diseases
- No neurological diseases (e.g. seizure disorders)
- No severe other illnesses
- Not pregnant/breastfeeding
- Ergometry suitability
Exclusion Criteria
- Lack of study consent (from participant or parents)
- Acute illnesses
- Manifest cardiac or respiratory disease
- Psychiatric diseases
- Neurological diseases (e.g. seizure disorders)
- Severe other diseases
- Pregnant and breastfeeding women
- Lack of ergometry suitability
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Statistically significant or physiologically meaningful changes in selected effect parameters are considered as endpoints. Subjective (e.g., mask wearing sensation questionnaires) and objective, i.e., physiological (e.g., respiratory minute volume, heart rate) effect parameters that have been identified from previous studies in the literature will be examined.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method