Clinical trial NCT06088524: The Effects of Mental Fatigue Created by Social Media on Upper Extremity Performance
Official title: Determining the Effects of Mental Fatigue Created by Social Media on Upper Extremity Performance
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Mental Fatigue
Upper Extremity Performance
Social Media
Lead sponsor: Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Burçin Akçay
name: Arzu Genç
name: Canan Demir
First posted: 2023-10-18
Enrollment: 29
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 30
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: It will be conducted on Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University Faculty of Health Sciences students.

Brief summary: There are a limited number of studies in the literature, and it is stated that mental fatigue caused by social media use causes a decrease in upper-extremity movement speed and a decrease in lower-extremity endurance performance. Therefore, this study aims to determine the effects of social media-induced mental fatigue on upper extremity performance.

Detailed description: Mental fatigue is a psychobiological condition that requires prolonged cognitive activity and is characterized by subjective feelings of "tiredness" and "lack of energy." It reduces sport-related decision-making, technical skills, motor control and endurance performances. This has led to a condition known as social media fatigue among many users, where they feel exhausted from repeated exposure to an enormous amount of information from brands. Social media fatigue is "the tendency of social media users to withdraw from social media when they are overwhelmed by too many social media sites, too many friends and followers, and too much time spent online to maintain these connections".Researchers have drawn attention to the negative effects of internet-induced fatigue, which is increasing daily, and emphasized that excessive internet use can lead to physical and psychological problems. Although there are a limited number of studies in the literature, there is a limited number of studies investigating the effects of mental fatigue caused by social media use on upper extremity performance.Therefore, this study aims to determine the effects of mental fatigue caused by social media on upper extremity performance.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Volunteering to participate in the study
* Being sedentary
* To be between the ages of 18-30

Exclusion Criteria:

* Any mental or sensory problems in the last six months
* Acute infection or chronic disease of neurological, psychiatric, orthopedic, cardiological, rheumatological, etc. origin
* Having had any upper extremity injury and/or operation (trauma, surgery, fracture, etc.) in the last six months
* Regular medication use

Primary outcomes:
measure: 1-Isometric Elbow Flexion Strength
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: 1-Isometric Elbow Flexion Strength
timeFrame: 1 week later
measure: 2-Hand grip strength
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: 2-Hand grip strength
timeFrame: 1 week later
measure: 3- Upper extremity reaction test
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: 3- Upper extremity reaction test
timeFrame: 1 week later
measure: 4-Finger reaction test
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: 4-Finger reaction test
timeFrame: 1 week later
measure: 5-Hand performance test
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: 5-Hand performance test
timeFrame: 1 week later
measure: 6-Mental stopwatch
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: 6-Mental stopwatch
timeFrame: 1 week later
measure: 7-Evaluation of position sense
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: 7-Evaluation of position sense
timeFrame: 1 week later
measure: 8-Upper extremity endurance test:
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: 8-Upper extremity endurance test:
timeFrame: 1 week later
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Balıkesir
country: Turkey
facility: Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University
Study officials:
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