Abstract

“Assess the knowledge regarding Nomophobia and its prevention among nursing students at selected nursing college, Lucknow with a view to develop an information booklet”. In Today’s Contemporary digital and virtual society, anxiety is the affliction of life. Social media and digital communication have become a part of life. Many things were made easy through online connectivity. The mobile phones not only connect people at anytime, anywhere and with anybody, but also movable and portable. A new addition to the stress list is ‘Nomophobia’, the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. This may cause a number of physical and psychological problems. In nomophobia people, especially teenagers, get very anxious when they lose their mobile phone, run out of battery or credit or due to led network coverage. This study is a preliminary investigation of extent of knowledge regarding nomophobia and its prevention level in a college of nursing where sample were 114 students (B.Sc(N) first and second year students). This study was conducted using a knowledge questionnaire, and information booklets.

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