Effect of Texting and Writing on Hand Grip and Key Pinch Strength Among Collegiate Students
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 50
- 试验地点
- 4
- 主要终点
- Hand grasp Hand grasp
研究概览
简要总结
Texting and writing are common hand activities among college students. Students tend to spend increasing hours of texting and writing for every day activities in addition to the academic assignments that are mainly on line and through distance education. The effect of such daily activities on hand grip and key pinch strength has not been studied among college students.
详细描述
Students will be recruited from physical therapy department of college of medical rehabilitation sciences after satisfying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the four groups (texting 10 minutes, texting 15 minutes, writing 10 minutes and writing 15 minutes). Participants will be blinded to the outcome measures and the evaluator will be blinded to the participants assigned group. Hand grip strength and key pinch strength will be the main outcome measures. Participants demographics will be gathered in addition to recreational status, risk factors, pain body diagram and number of hours spent for texting and writing in every day life.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
Outcome assessor will be masked to the participant's assigned activity and participants will be masked to the exact outcome measures.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 24 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Active college student
- •Willing to participate
- •Using smart phones& electronics
- •Hand writing for > 10 minutes/day
排除标准
- •Recent upper limbs injury (sprain& strain)
- •Chronic neurological disorder
- •Carpal tunnel syndrome
- •De Quervain's disease
- •Diabetic neuropathy
结局指标
主要结局
Hand grasp Hand grasp
时间窗: Up to 12 weeks
Grip strength of the right- hand dominant will be measured at two wrist positions.
Key pinch
时间窗: Up to 12 weeks
Key pinch strength of the right- hand dominant will be measured.
次要结局
- Borg CR-10(Up to 12 weeks)
研究者
Tarek Mohamed El-gohary
Associate Professor
General Committee of Teaching Hospitals and Institutes, Egypt