Relationship Between Smartphone Addiction and Temporomandibular Joint Disorders Among Adults in Egypt.
- Conditions
- Temporomandibular DisordersSmartphone Addiction
- Registration Number
- NCT06261697
- Lead Sponsor
- Cairo University
- Brief Summary
Cross sectional study to investigate the relation between Smartphone addiction and temporomandibular disorders among youth population in Egypt. An online- based questionnaire study. A 296 participants who are Egyptians with age between18 and 35 years old without prior neck and upper extremity related diseases, orofacial trauma or surgeries, history of rheumatoid arthritis or congenital musculoskeletal problems. An online- based questionnaire will be sent through different social media platforms, it will include three screens, the first includes the consent form, the second includes the demographic data (year of birth, current educational status, gender and geographic information ), and the third page includes questionnaires
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- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- NOT_YET_RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 296
- both males and females adults
- Their ages between18 and 35 years old
- ability to use Smartphone
- any neck and upper extremity related diseases
- orofacial trauma or surgeries
- history of Rheumatoid arthritis
- congenital musculoskeletal problems.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Fonseca Anamnestic Index (FAI) questionnaire 2 months a questionnaire used to assess the severity of TMD
Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short version (SAS-SV) questionnaire 2 months a questionnaire used to measure the degree of smartphone addiction
Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) 2 months a questionnaire used to indicate the severity of depression
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method