Evaluating Effect of Anxiety on Eye Hand Coordination Using Jenga game

Introduction:

The time and location of docking the hand and eye on the object should be synchronized, for efficiently performing a goal-oriented task. Under anxiety an individual toils to perform a task and an increased dependency in daily activities could be attributed to a decline in Eye Hand Coordination (EHC). It can thus be stated that anxiety sways the performance behaviour by impacting perception and working memory.

Aim:

To determine if the game of Jenga can be an indicator of anxiety among post-graduate dental students.

Methodology:

The game of Jenga was chosen to determine the eye-hand co-ordination and anxiety levels of different post-graduate students. A secondary objective of this study was to determine work-place related stress. In order to satisfy our goals, 30 post-graduate (PG) students with normal or corrected to normal vision who scored more than 13 on the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale were included. These students were further divided into four groups (n=15 each). Group I and Group 2 included PG students managing paediatric patients who played Jenga outside their work place and inside their work place respectively. Group 3 and Group 4 included PG students managing adult patients who played Jenga outside their work place and inside their work place respectively. The game of Jenga is played by each participant for 15 minutes and is composed of 54 hardwood blocks, where a player removes wooden blocks from a stacked tower formation and place it on top of the tower which will make it less stable was used to assess EHC. The scoring of EHC depended on the number of blocks the participant could place on top of the tower without making it fall.

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