Impact of Energy Drinks on the Manual Dexterity of Final Year Dental Students
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2015-07-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
This study aims to test the hypothesis that there was a relationship between the consumption
of energy drinks and the manual dexterity skills of final year dental students.
Identification of baseline caffeine consumption and selection of sample Baseline caffeine
consumption will be identified by distributing the caffeine consumption questionnaire to all
the final year students of the Riyadh Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy. The study will
recruit 60 students who are moderate caffeine consumers. To avoid the confounding effect of
nicotine consumption, the study will only recruit non-smokers .female candidates taken oral
contraceptives and Subjects with any history of renal disease will be excluded.
All subjects will be required to prepare a box 2mmx2mmx2mm using a high speed handpiece (NSK,
Japan) and a no.330 cutting bur. Each participant will be allowed two attempts to cut the
cavity in each test both cavities will be selected for assessment. The ability of the
participants to reproduce the dimensions (2mmx2mmx2mm) and the time taken to complete the
task will be used as criteria to evaluate dexterity. The participants will be required to
perform the test before and 30 minutes after energy drink exposure.
Energy Drink Exposure Subjects will be given 330ml of an energy three hours after the last
meal in the other hand the control group will be receiving a placebo drink .
Dexterity outcomes will be compared before and after exposure to the energy drink using the
paired t test. Outcomes will be compared between different groups and different time
intervals using the two way, multiple measures ANOVA. All data will be analyzed using the
SPSS ver.21 data processing software.