The Association between Excessive Use of Smartphone and Tension Type Headache in High School Student

Abstract

Tension Type Headache (TTH) are one of the most common form of primary headache. The presence of headache reported in 80.6% of teenager within age range 14 to 19, with 17.9% in the form of TTH. Easy access to electronic cause worry over its effect on teenager health. Association has been shown between use of telephone and health problems, where 21.65% of subjects reported headache. This research meant to evaluate whether use of electronic device, specifically smartphone within period of time associated with incidence of TTH on teenager. Length of use defined as less or same as 3 hour, and more than 3 hour. This cross-sectional analytic research conducted to whole second year students of National High School 1 Denpasar in form of survey in July 2018. From 129 subjects that responded, 8 subject filled the exclusion criteria, while 22 subjects excluded for filling incorrect or incomplete answer, leaving 99 subjects that fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Subjects age range from 15 to 17 years with standard deviation 0.426. 19 subjects (19.2%) reported TTH. 80 subjects (80.8%) admitted for using smartphone over 3 hour a day. There is no significant association between length of use of electronic device and TTH (Chi-square 2.326, p=0.127; OR 2.38; 95% CI 0.72-7.4).