De Quervain Syndrome Among Medical Students with Smart Phone Addiction

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: De Quervain Tenosynovitis; Smartphone Addiction

• Registration Number: NCT06731634
• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University

Brief Summary

To investigate the prevelance of the de quervain tenosynovitis among the Egyptian medical students with smartphone addiction

Detailed Description

Addictive participants will be assigned and enrolled in the study according to there addiction score on smartphone addiction scale.

Participants will receive a Finkelstein test for both dominant and non dominant hand for the de quervain tenosynovitis.

Then the strentgh of both hand grip and pinch grip for both hands will be tested using hand grip strength dynamometer and pinch strentgh dynamometer.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2024-12
• Study Start: 2024-12
• Study First Submitted: 2024-12-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-12-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-12-09
• Study First Posted: 2024-12-12
• Last Update Posted: 2024-12-12
• Primary Completion: 2025-01
• Study Completion: 2025-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 103

Inclusion Criteria

• Asymptomatic students with normal healthy state
• Any student in all the academic years with age 18-25
• Addictive smart phone users with score over 31 for male and 33 for female students in smart phone addiction scale.
• Who own or use mobile.
• Both genders: male and female
• Willing to participate.
• Egyptian students

Exclusion Criteria

• Those who don't have mobile phone.
• Any previous injury or trauma or surgery and a history of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and deformities and changes in the shape of the finger joints.
• Those who are not willing to participate.
• Non-Egyptian students.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Dominant hand grip strength and Non-Dominant hand grip strength by the using of jamar hydraulic grip strength dynamometer	1 Day
Dominant hand pinch strength and non-dominant hand pinch strength by the using of jamar hydraulic pinch strength dynamometer	1 Day

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The degree of pain during the finkelstein test by the using of visual analoug scale	1 Day	The visual analoug scale (vas) will be used to identify the degree of pain that the participant felt during the finkelstein test the scale values are from 0mm to 100mm 0mm means he didn't feel any pain which is good, 100mm means he felt the morst pain which is bad