Abstract
To determine the mobile phone addiction level in university students, to examine several associated factors and to evaluate the relation between the addiction level and sleep quality. The study is a cross-sectional research conducted on the students of the Sakarya University between 01 November 2012 and 01 February 2013. The study group included 576 students. The Problematic Mobile Phone Use Scale was used for evaluating the mobile phone addiction level and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index for assessing the sleep quality. Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test and Spearman's Correlation Analysis were used for analyzing the data. The study group consisted of 296 (51.4%) females and 208 (48.6%) males. The mean age was 20.83 ± 1.90 years (min:17, max:28). The addiction level was determined to be higher in the second-year students, those with poor family income, those with type A personality, those whose age for first mobile phone is 13 and below and those whose duration of daily mobile phone use is above 5 hours (p < 0.05 for each). The sleep quality worsens with increasing mobile phone addiction level (p < 0.05). The sleep quality worsens with increasing addiction level. It was concluded that referring the students with suspected addiction to advanced healthcare facilities, performing occasional scans for early diagnosis and informing the students about controlled mobile phone use would be useful.
Highlights
In line with the developing technology, the mobile phone use has become a part of daily life.1
The survey form which was prepared by using the literature in line with the objective of the study[8,9] includes some socio-demographic attributes of the students, several factors that are believed to be associated with the mobile phone use, and the questions on the Problematic Mobile Phone Use Scale and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
The scores obtained from the Problematic Mobile Phone Use Scale by the students varied between 27 and 135 with an average of 51.38 ± 15.30 points
Summary
The study is a cross-sectional research conducted on the students of the Sakarya University between 01 November 2012 and 01 February 2013. A total of 28,453 students are educated within 10 Faculties and 3 Institutes in the campus of the Sakarya University. The survey form which was prepared by using the literature in line with the objective of the study[8,9] includes some socio-demographic attributes of the students, several factors that are believed to be associated with the mobile phone use, and the questions on the Problematic Mobile Phone Use Scale and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Before starting to collect data, required approvals were obtained from the University management and Faculty managers, and the students were gathered in the classes. Prepared survey forms were completed by the students under supervision. The rules stated in the Helsinki Declaration were complied in the stage of data collection
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