The role of sex and handedness in the performance of the smartphone-based Finger-Tapping Test.

Autor:	Brito FAC; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil., Monteiro LCP; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil., Rocha Santos EG; Instituto de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil., de Lima RC; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil., Santos-Lobato BL; Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil., Cabral AS; Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade do Estado do Pará, Belém, Brazil., Callegari B; Laboratório de Estudos do Movimento Humano, Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil., Costa E Silva AA; Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências do Movimento Humano, Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil., Souza GS; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil.; Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	PLOS digital health [PLOS Digit Health] 2023 Aug 16; Vol. 2 (8), pp. e0000304. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 16 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pdig.0000304
Abstrakt:	The Finger Tapping Test (FTT) is a classical neuropsychological test that assesses motor functioning, and recently it has been employed using smartphones. For classical protocols, it has been observed that sex and handedness influence the performance during the test. By assessing the influence of sex and handedness on the test, it is possible to adjust the performance measurements to ensure the validity of test results and avoid sex- and handedness-related bias. The present study aimed to evaluate the influence of sex and handedness on smartphone-based FTT performance. We developed an Android application for the FTT and recruited 40 males and 40 females to carry out three spatial designs on it (protocols I, II, and III). Participants' performance was measured using the global, temporal, and spatial parameters of the FTT. We observed that for the performance in protocol I, handedness had a significant influence on global and temporal variables, while the interaction between handedness and sex had a greater influence on spatial variables. For protocols II and III, we observed that handedness had a significant influence on global, temporal, and spatial variables compared to the other factors. We concluded that the smartphone-based test is partly influenced by handedness and sex, and in clinical implications, these factors should be considered during the evaluation of the smartphone-based FTT. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. (Copyright: © 2023 Brito et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
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