The Influence of Laterality on the Performance of Healthy Women in Selected Standardized Tests

The Influence of Laterality on the Performance of Healthy Women Aged 20-24 Years in Selected Standardized Tests Assessing the Upper Limbs Function

The aim of the research study is to find out how the results of healthy women aged 20-24 years (inclusive) differ in the Nine Peg Test, the Purdue Pegboard Test and the Box and Block Test, depending on the laterality of the research participants and the order of the performed subtests of the investigated tests. In this way, it will be preliminarily determined whether it is necessary to create normative data separately for right-handed and left-handed people for the tests.

Research participants will be tested in one meeting after giving informed consent, answering a few short questions regarding health status and filling out a short questionnaire using the Czech extended version of the manual for all three standardized tests, and always according to a predetermined order. Intentionally, all research participants with a dominant right upper limb will be tested as if they were left-handed, and vice versa.

The results of the research participants tested in this way will be compared with the results of women from the same age category who have already been properly tested as part of an ongoing research study entitled: "Establishing Czech Norms of Selected Standardized Tests".

Inclusion Criteria:

• Czech language as a mother tongue
• age from 20 to 24 years (inclusive)
• female

Exclusion Criteria:

• diagnosed pathology of the upper limbs or diseases that negatively affect the dexterity of their limbs
• use of drugs affecting attention
• vision impairment uncorrectable with glasses
• severe hearing loss
• inability to understand instructions
• inability to read or write
• inability to complete testing
• failure to sign Informed consent for probation with inclusion to research and Consent to the collection and processing of personal data during the study at the General University Hospital in Prague