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Time spent on the smartphone does not relate to manual dexterity in young adults
BACKGROUND: The Grooved Pegboard Test (GPT) is widely adopted to evaluate manual dexterity, it presents normative data but the test is influenced by different factors. The influence of time spent on smartphones has not been considered before, for this reason, the objective of this study was to evalu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8111913/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33975543 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12868-021-00639-y |
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author | Petrigna, Luca Treigienė, Milda Thomas, Ewan Mani, Diba Pajaujiene, Simona Drid, Patrik Lavanco, Gioacchino Palma, Antonio Bianco, Antonino |
author_facet | Petrigna, Luca Treigienė, Milda Thomas, Ewan Mani, Diba Pajaujiene, Simona Drid, Patrik Lavanco, Gioacchino Palma, Antonio Bianco, Antonino |
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description | BACKGROUND: The Grooved Pegboard Test (GPT) is widely adopted to evaluate manual dexterity, it presents normative data but the test is influenced by different factors. The influence of time spent on smartphones has not been considered before, for this reason, the objective of this study was to evaluate if smartphone use influences the time to complete the GPT. A total of 38 (21 women; 17 men) young adults 20.7 (1.5) years participated in the study. The time spent on the smartphones during the last seven days was recorded through the device itself and the GPT performance was measured. A correlation analysis between the time spent on the smartphone and GPT was performed while the t-test was adopted to evaluate gender differences. RESULTS: No statistically significant differences were detected between men and women in the time to complete the GPT (p = 0.20) and in the time spent on the smartphone (p = 0.87). The GPT and the time spent using the smartphone were not correlated (r = 0.044, p = 0.78). CONCLUSION: The time spent on the smartphone by young adults does not influence the time to complete the GPT, indicating that smartphone use does not influence measures of manual dexterity. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12868-021-00639-y. |
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spelling | pubmed-81119132021-05-11 Time spent on the smartphone does not relate to manual dexterity in young adults Petrigna, Luca Treigienė, Milda Thomas, Ewan Mani, Diba Pajaujiene, Simona Drid, Patrik Lavanco, Gioacchino Palma, Antonio Bianco, Antonino BMC Neurosci Research Article BACKGROUND: The Grooved Pegboard Test (GPT) is widely adopted to evaluate manual dexterity, it presents normative data but the test is influenced by different factors. The influence of time spent on smartphones has not been considered before, for this reason, the objective of this study was to evaluate if smartphone use influences the time to complete the GPT. A total of 38 (21 women; 17 men) young adults 20.7 (1.5) years participated in the study. The time spent on the smartphones during the last seven days was recorded through the device itself and the GPT performance was measured. A correlation analysis between the time spent on the smartphone and GPT was performed while the t-test was adopted to evaluate gender differences. RESULTS: No statistically significant differences were detected between men and women in the time to complete the GPT (p = 0.20) and in the time spent on the smartphone (p = 0.87). The GPT and the time spent using the smartphone were not correlated (r = 0.044, p = 0.78). CONCLUSION: The time spent on the smartphone by young adults does not influence the time to complete the GPT, indicating that smartphone use does not influence measures of manual dexterity. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12868-021-00639-y. BioMed Central 2021-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8111913/ /pubmed/33975543 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12868-021-00639-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Petrigna, Luca Treigienė, Milda Thomas, Ewan Mani, Diba Pajaujiene, Simona Drid, Patrik Lavanco, Gioacchino Palma, Antonio Bianco, Antonino Time spent on the smartphone does not relate to manual dexterity in young adults |
title | Time spent on the smartphone does not relate to manual dexterity in young adults |
title_full | Time spent on the smartphone does not relate to manual dexterity in young adults |
title_fullStr | Time spent on the smartphone does not relate to manual dexterity in young adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Time spent on the smartphone does not relate to manual dexterity in young adults |
title_short | Time spent on the smartphone does not relate to manual dexterity in young adults |
title_sort | time spent on the smartphone does not relate to manual dexterity in young adults |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8111913/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33975543 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12868-021-00639-y |
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