Effect of Texting and Writing on Grip and Pinch Strength

Effect of Texting and Writing on Hand Grip and Key Pinch Strength Among Collegiate Students

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Muscle Weakness Condition; Hand Grasp
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Texting- 10 minutes; Other: Writing- 10 minutes; Other: Texting- 15 minutes; Other: Writing- 15 minutes

Detailed Description

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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 50
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Saudi Arabia
  • Medina, Saudi Arabia, 20012
    • College of medical rehabilitation sciences
  • Medina, Saudi Arabia, 41411
    • College of medical rehabilitation sciences

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 24 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Active college student
• Healthy
• Willing to participate
• Using smart phones& electronics
• Hand writing for > 10 minutes/day

Exclusion Criteria:

• Recent upper limbs injury (sprain& strain)
• Chronic neurological disorder
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• De Quervain's disease
• Diabetic neuropathy

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

5

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Texting- 10 minutes; Assigned participants will do texting for 10 minutes.	Other: Texting- 10 minutes; Participants will practice texting for 10 minutes using smart phone.
Experimental: Writing- 10 minutes; Assigned participants will do writing for 10 minutes.	Other: Writing- 10 minutes; Participants will practice writing on notebook for 10 minutes.
Experimental: Texting- 15 minutes; Assigned participants will do texting for 15 minutes.	Other: Texting- 15 minutes; Participants will practice texting for 15 minutes using smart phone.
Experimental: Writing-15 minutes; Assigned participants will do writing for 15 minutes.	Other: Writing- 15 minutes; Participants will practice writing on notebook for 15 minutes.
No Intervention: Control group; No hand activities.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Hand grasp Hand grasp	Grip strength of the right- hand dominant will be measured at two wrist positions.	Up to 12 weeks
Key pinch	Key pinch strength of the right- hand dominant will be measured.	Up to 12 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Borg CR-10	Rating the perceived exertion just after hand activity session.	Up to 12 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: General Committee of Teaching Hospitals and Institutes, Egypt
• Collaborators: King Saud University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 8, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 30, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): May 31, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 12, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 18, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): March 23, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 14, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 12, 2022
• Last Verified: October 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Risk factors; Students; Hand grip strength, key pinch, risk factors, students; Key pinch
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Nervous System Diseases; Neurologic Manifestations; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Muscular Diseases; Neuromuscular Manifestations; Muscle Weakness
• Other Study ID Numbers: CMR-PT-2021-09

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: Hand grip and key pinch strength outcome measures will be shared.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No