NCT06731634

De Quervain Syndrome Among Medical Students with Smart Phone Addiction

Prevalence of De Quervain' S Tenosynovit's Syndrome Among Egyptian Medical Students with Smart Phone Addiction

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 103 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To investigate the prevelance of the de quervain tenosynovitis among the Egyptian medical students with smartphone addiction

Detailed description

Addictive participants will be assigned and enrolled in the study according to there addiction score on smartphone addiction scale. Participants will receive a Finkelstein test for both dominant and non dominant hand for the de quervain tenosynovitis. Then the strentgh of both hand grip and pinch grip for both hands will be tested using hand grip strength dynamometer and pinch strentgh dynamometer.

Conditions

• De Quervain Tenosynovitis
• Smartphone Addiction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Hand grip strength dynamometer, pinch strength dynamometer	Both devices will be used to assign the strength of grip and pinch for both dominant and non dominant hands by using jamar hydraulic hand grip strength dynamometer and Jamar hydraulic pinch strength dynamometer
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Finkelstein test	Finkelstein test which is used to diagnose the de quervain tenosynovitis and it will be used to assist the people with smartphone addiction

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-12-01
• Primary completion: 2025-01-01
• Completion: 2025-03-01
• First posted: 2024-12-12
• Last updated: 2024-12-12

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study