Open AccessNormative Reference Standard for Handgrip Strength among Adolescent Students in South Punjab Pakistan: A Cross-Sectional Study
Author(s) -
Syed Muhammad Zeeshan Haider Hamdani,
Jie Zhuang,
Tian Wang,
Syed Ghufran Hadier
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of business and social review in emerging economies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2519-089X
pISSN - 2519-0326
DOI - 10.26710/jbsee.v7i4.2064
Subject(s) - percentile , grip strength , normative , psychology , cross sectional study , hand strength , population , dynamometer , reference values , physical therapy , medicine , mathematics , statistics , environmental health , engineering , political science , aerospace engineering , law
Purpose: The study provided the age and gender-specific normative standard by using LMS technique and comparison with international reference values for the muscular strength by hand grip among adolescents of South Punjab, Pakistan.
Design/Methodology/Approach: A cross sectional descriptive research design was adopted, 60 public high school with 2970 students aged 12-16 contributed. Hand grip strength was measured using (GRIPX Digital Hand Dynamometer). LMS method was used for calculating reference norms. Age and gender-specific smoothed percentile curves P5th to P95th were acquired for hand grip strength.
Findings: The results revealed that the boys were higher in muscular strength than their counterparts, South Punjab’s adolescents were found lower in strength than the compared adolescents. Around 40% of the population is falling in the poor and very poor zone.
Implications/Originality/Value: The current study presented the foremost age and gender specific hand grip strength percentile curves and provided the health benefit zones for the adolescent of South Punjab.