The Relationship of Hand Dominance and Dominant Eye to Some Diseases of University Students

Begümhan Aliosmanoğlu 1, Çiğdem Köçkar 2
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1 Gaziantep Üniversitesi, Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Anatomi Anabilim Dalı, Gaziantep
2 Hasan Kalyoncu Üniversitesi, Sağlık Bilimleri Yüksekokulu, Hemşirelik Bölümü, Gaziantep
EUR J BASIC MED SCI, Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. 53-57. https://doi.org/10.15197/sabad.2.5.10
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ABSTRACT

There are studies about right hemisphere dominance in the direction of slowing the development of the body’s immune mechanisms. In these studies, the clinical condition of the subject associated with cerebral the lateralization, in some patient subgroups left hand dominance and increased rates are seen to be two handedness. In our study, we had investigated the hand preference and eye dominance relationships with some of the diseases. 95 students were applied exactly “Annett Hand Preference Questionnaire”, “Beck Depression Inventory”, dominant eye test. Subjects were asked if they had the diagnosis of any cardiovascular, respiratory system, digestive system, urogenital system, nervous system, musculoskeletal system, endocrine system diseases or rheumatic diseases, allergy, diabetes, vision, hearing and speech problems. In this study, both handedness and right-handedness rates in males and women with left-handedness rate are more common, although there was no significant difference between hand preference and gender. 50.5% of the participants have the dominant eye as left. The right eye dominance rate in women is higher than men. There was no significant difference between gender and eye dominance. In this study the relationship between eye dominance and hand dominance was not statistically significant. In the comparison of left-handedness and neurological diseases was found as significance ( p=0.025). According to the results of the Beck Depression Inventory, there were not a significant difference when the participants’ emotional states, compared to the dominant eye and hand preference. In addition to many factors on immune mechanisms of cerebral hemisphere dominance may be affective must be known. On this subjects with new studies pathophysiology of many neuroendocrine, neuroimmune psychiatric disorders of treatment approaches that can illuminate accordingly to be able to change.

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Aliosmanoğlu B, Köçkar Ç. The Relationship of Hand Dominance and Dominant Eye to Some Diseases of University Students. Eur J Basic Med Sci. 2014;4(3):53-7. https://doi.org/10.15197/sabad.2.5.10

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