NCT04775342

Smartphone and Posture Control In Healthy Adolescents

Smartphone Dual Tasking and Posture Control In Healthy Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a study to determine if smartphone use affect posture control in adolescents.

Detailed description

It is within subject repeated measure study to determine if touch screen use affect posture control in healthy adolescents. 200 normal adolescents between 14 and 18 years old will be included. 1st they will be assessed for posture control to determine normal values for their ages, then each child will be given smartphone to play a game while the sound is muted for 15 min then their balance will be re-assessed, finally they will use the phone for another 15 min but the children will use headphone piece this time then re-assess balance.

Conditions

• Balance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	smartphone	modern technology

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-12
• Primary completion: 2021-07-02
• Completion: 2021-11-27
• First posted: 2021-03-01
• Last updated: 2022-05-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt