NCT04785781

Effects of Face Masks on Cardiopulmonary Capacity in Healthy Individuals

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pamukkale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of our study is to compare the effects of face masks on cardiopulmonary capacity in young healthy individuals. The results of our study will show the effects of face masks commonly used during the pandemic period.

Detailed description

The aim of our study is to compare the effects of face masks on cardiopulmonary capacity in young healthy individuals. The results of our study will show the effects of face masks commonly used during the pandemic period. The hypotheses we will test for this purpose; H1: face masks affect cardiopulmory capacity in healthy individuals H2: face masks affect heart rate in health individuals H3: face masks affect oxygen saturation in healthy individuals H4: face masks affect respiratory frequency in healthy individuals

Conditions

• Covid-19

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	without masks	apply a bicycle ergometer test protocol to individuals without a mask
OTHER	Surgical face mask (Vheal Med Co., Ltd., Istanbul, Turkey)	apply a bicycle ergometer test protocol to individuals with a surgical mask
OTHER	FFP2\N95 protective face mask (Musk protective technology, Gaziantep, Turkey)	apply a bicycle ergometer test protocol to individuals with a FFP2\\N95 mask

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-01
• Primary completion: 2021-04-14
• Completion: 2021-04-15
• First posted: 2021-03-08
• Last updated: 2022-03-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)