Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Recruiting
Administrative data
NCT number |
NCT04775433 |
Other study ID # |
UniMalta |
Secondary ID |
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Status |
Recruiting |
Phase |
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First received |
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Last updated |
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Start date |
March 15, 2021 |
Est. completion date |
May 30, 2023 |
Study information
Verified date |
April 2021 |
Source |
University of Malta |
Contact |
MaryGrace Grima, B.Sc (Hons) |
Phone |
0035679095149 |
Email |
mary.g.grima.14[@]um.edu.mt |
Is FDA regulated |
No |
Health authority |
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Study type |
Observational
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Clinical Trial Summary
The ultimate goal for every health-care system is to have a healthy population by maintaining
good physical fitness levels and lifestyle habits, including regular physical activity, good
sleep quality, smoking and alcohol abstinence. The main components of physical fitness
include body composition, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and cardiovascular
endurance. National research based on actual and perceived physical fitness levels in
University of Malta (UM) students where both physical and non-physical testing are included,
is lacking.
Also, to the knowledge of the researcher, no such research investigated the relationship
between the actual and perceived levels of physical fitness with lifestyle habits (smoking,
alcohol consumption and sleep).
This study aims to investigate the correlation between the actual and perceived levels of
physical fitness (body composition, cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance
and flexibility) by physical and non-physical testing, the correlation between lifestyle
patterns (smoking, alcohol consumption and sleep.
Description:
The ultimate goal for every health-care system is to have a healthy population by maintaining
good physical fitness levels and lifestyle habits, including regular physical activity, good
sleep quality, smoking and alcohol abstinence. The main components of physical fitness
include body composition, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and cardiovascular
endurance. A national research based on actual and perceived physical fitness levels in
University of Malta (UM) students where both physical and non-physical testing are included,
is lacking.
Also, to the knowledge of the researcher, no such research investigated the relationship
between the actual and perceived levels of physical fitness with lifestyle habits (smoking,
alcohol consumption and sleep).
This study aims to investigate the correlation between the actual and perceived levels of
physical fitness (body composition, cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance
and flexibility) by physical and non-physical testing, the correlation between lifestyle
patterns (smoking, alcohol consumption and sleep.
This proposed research shall adopt a quantitative-based, correlational type of study design.
Registrar and student organisations shall act as intermediary entities and send an
information letter via electronic mail to all students aged between 18-30 years. All
participants who respond to the call, on attendance to a pre-set date for a face-to-face
information session by the researcher, will be asked to sign an informed consent form. Each
participant will come for data collection only once at the Department of Physiotherapy
laboratories, Faculty of Health Sciences, at the University of Malta and shall take around 20
minutes.
Every query will be answered, a detailed explanation and demonstration of each test will be
given to each participant, and qualified physiotherapists will perform the testing.
In this proposed study, the aim of The Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND),
Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)
is to quantitatively study various lifestyle habits in UM students including smoking, alcohol
consumption and sleep quality respectively. The Self-Perceived Fitness questionnaire (SPF)
shall be used to measure self-perceived physical fitness in University of Malta students. The
Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence is open-access, and can be used for free for research
purposes. On the other hand, permissions to use the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification
Test, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Self-Perceived Fitness questionnaire were given by
their respective authors.
Body composition shall be measured by Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference, lower and
upper limb flexibility shall be measured by Modified Sit and Reach Test and Back Scratch Test
respectively. In addition, cardiovascular endurance shall be measured by Resting Heart Rate,
Blood Pressure and 3 Min Step Test, while Squats and Push-ups until fatigue shall be used to
measure lower and upper limb muscular strength and endurance. All data will then be analysed
using statistical methods.