The Influence of Laterality on the Performance of Healthy Women in Selected Standardized Tests

Recruiting

• Conditions: Motor Activity
• Interventions: Diagnostic Test: Nine Hole Peg Test, Purdue Pegboard Test, Box and Block Test

• Registration Number: NCT05661617
• Lead Sponsor: Charles University, Czech Republic

Brief Summary

The aim of the research study is to find out how the results of healthy women aged 20-24 years (inclusive) differ in the Nine Peg Test, the Purdue Pegboard Test and the Box and Block Test, depending on the laterality of the research participants and the order of the performed subtests of the investigated tests. In this way, it will be preliminarily determined whether it is necessary to create normative data separately for right-handed and left-handed people for the tests.

Detailed Description

Research participants will be tested in one meeting after giving informed consent, answering a few short questions regarding health status and filling out a short questionnaire using the Czech extended version of the manual for all three standardized tests, and always according to a predetermined order. Intentionally, all research participants with a dominant right upper limb will be tested as if they were left-handed, and vice versa.

The results of the research participants tested in this way will be compared with the results of women from the same age category who have already been properly tested as part of an ongoing research study entitled: "Establishing Czech Norms of Selected Standardized Tests".

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2022-12-14
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-12-14
• Study First Posted: 2022-12-22
• Study Start: 2023-01-19
• Status Verified: 2024-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-02-14
• Last Update Posted: 2024-02-15
• Primary Completion: 2024-10-30
• Study Completion: 2024-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• Czech language as a mother tongue
• age from 20 to 24 years (inclusive)
• female

Exclusion Criteria

• diagnosed pathology of the upper limbs or diseases that negatively affect the dexterity of their limbs
• use of drugs affecting attention
• vision impairment uncorrectable with glasses
• severe hearing loss
• inability to understand instructions
• inability to read or write
• inability to complete testing
• failure to sign Informed consent for probation with inclusion to research and Consent to the collection and processing of personal data during the study at the General University Hospital in Prague

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Czech healthy women tested in normative study	Nine Hole Peg Test, Purdue Pegboard Test, Box and Block Test	Czech healthy women aged 20-24 years tested in study called "Establishing Czech Norms of Selected Standardized Tests".
Czech healthy women (experimental group)	Nine Hole Peg Test, Purdue Pegboard Test, Box and Block Test	Czech healthy women aged 20-24 years (inclusive) who participated in the research in the period from January 2023.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
results from the Nine Hole Peg Test	10 minutes	time in seconds and hundreds of seconds
results from the Purdue Pegboard Test	25 minutes	number of parts put in the Pegboard according to the rules
results from the Box and Block Test	30 minutes	number of transported blocks

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague; 🇨🇿 Praha, Czechia