The Effects of Mental Fatigue Created by Social Media on Upper Extremity Performance

Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Social Media; Upper Extremity Performance; Mental Fatigue

Treatments: Other: Social Media Fatigue

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06088524

2022-187

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 29 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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