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NCT Number: NCT02535143

Impact of Energy Drinks on the Manual Dexterity of Final Year Dental Students

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Hand Skill, Relative

Age range

21 year–26 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 4

Primary location

Riyadh Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

About this study

The dentistry training program has been reported to be a stressful one; and while academic pressures are high, the high level of dexterity skills that dentistry demands are often cited as a major source of stress. There is some research on the impact that caffeine in general and energy drinks in particular can have on academic performance, however, there is considerably less data on the impact of these drinks on manual dexterity. 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. Based on the caffeine consumption score the study will recruit 60 moderate. To avoid the confounding effect of nicotine consumption, the study will only recruit non-smokers .female candidates taken oral contraceptives will be eliminated due to the correlation between them and caffeine. Subjects with any history of renal disease will be prevented from participation in the study Test for manual dexterity Acrylic blocks (2cmx2cmx2cm) will be prepared using a standardized mold. 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 in the test group (n 30) will be given 330ml of an energy drink containing caffeine, sugar and taurine (Red Bull, Red Bull GmbH, Austria Vienna) three hours after the last meal in the other hand the control group (n30) will be receiving a placebo drink which is apple juice.

Statistical Analysis 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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Final year dental student
  • Able to prepare acceptable test cavity (2mmx2mmx2mm) prior to intervention

Exclusion criteria

  • Smokers
  • Women on Oral Contraceptives
  • History of Renal Disease

Treatment and study plan

Test Cavity Preparation

Other

Subjects will be asked to prepare a cavity 2mmx 2mmx 2mm in an acrylic block using an airotor and a tungsten carbide bur prior to consuming the test drink

Other names: Dexterity test

Taurine

Drug

250 ml of commercially available taurine containing energy drink to be administered three hours after the last meal and half an hour prior to performing the second test cavity

Other names: Energy Drink

Post intervention test cavity

Other

Subjects will be asked to prepare a cavity 2mmx 2mmx 2mm in an acrylic block 30 minutes after consuming the intervention drink using an airotor and a tungsten carbide bur prior to consuming the test drink

Carbonated Apple Juice

Dietary Supplement

250ml of commercially available carbonated apple juice to be administered three hours after the last meal and half an hour prior to performing the second test cavity

Other names: Appy FIzz (Parle Agro, India)

Primary outcomes

  1. Cavity Accuracy in mm

    Time frame: Immediate

    Accuracy of the test cavity prepared in mm

Secondary outcomes

  1. Time taken to prepare the cavity in seconds

    Time frame: immediate

    Time taken in seconds to prepare the test cavity

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Riyadh Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy

Other

Registry information

Official study title

The Impact of Energy Drinks on the Manual Dexterity of Final Year Dental Students

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2015
First posted
Aug 28, 2015
Registry last updated
Oct 12, 2016

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