Prevalence Of Smartphone Addiction Research Articles

Smartphone addiction and its relation to musculoskeletal pain in Egyptian physical therapy students

Background: Smartphones are widely spread among the general population. This study was applied to determine the prevalence of Smartphone addiction and its relation to musculoskeletal pain among both male and female physical therapy students in Egypt.Methods: A sample of 420 physical therapy students from 11 schools of physical therapy in Egypt participated in this survey. They filled in a Google form – with information about student’s demographic data, device usage, phone size and behaviour, current symptoms – and a short version of smart phone addiction scale. Numerical data were summarised using means, standard deviations, medians and ranges. Categorical data were summarised as percentages. Comparisons between males and females were made using the t-test and Chi-square tests.Results: The Percentage of Smartphone addiction was 62.4% with increased level of addiction in females more than males. About 82.38% reported that they have feeling of discomfort in different body parts. There was a significant relation between some of the attempted positions during using Smartphones and site of discomfort and its type.Conclusion: The prevalence of Smartphone addiction among physical therapy students was high, with more addiction apparent among females, and it was significantly related with discomfort in different body parts.

Prevalence and factors associated with smartphone addiction among medical students at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah.

Objective:To investigate smartphone addiction among medical students and to determine factors associated with smartphone addiction among sixth-year medical students at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah.Methods:This cross-sectional study was conducted on 203 sixth-year medical students at the Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during July 2017. Data analysis was done using SPSS-20.Results:The number of completed questionnaires received was181 out of 203, making a response rate of 89%. There were 87 male respondents (48.1%) and 94 female respondents (51.9%). The overall prevalence of smartphone addiction was 66 (36.5%). There is a statistically significant relationship between daily hours of smartphone usage and smartphone addiction (p<0.02). Out of 66 addicted students, 24 (55.8%) students reported using their smartphone more than five hours daily, 17(34.7%) students were using it 4 to 5 hours daily, 13 (27.7%) students were using it 2 to 3 hours daily and 12(28.6%) students were using it less than two hours daily. The study showed no statistically significant relationship between smartphone addiction and smoking statusor degree of obesity. There was a significant association between the total score on the smartphone addiction scale and daily usage hours (p-value<0.005).Conclusion:The overall prevalence of smartphone addiction was high among our study participants. The smartphone addiction was associated with daily hours of smartphone usage.

Effect of smartphone usage on quality of sleep in medical students

Background: Like every other important invention of the technological revolution, smartphones have brought with themselves both comforts and problems. An irrational overuse of smartphones has been described as smartphone addiction. Medical students are highly vulnerable to sleep deprivation, smartphone addiction might further aggravate this problem. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study was to find out the effect of smartphone addiction on sleep quality among medical students of SKIMS Medical College, Srinagar. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 236 medical students from October 2017 to December 2017 using a self-administered questionnaire consisting of three parts sociodemographic characteristics, smartphone addiction scale (SAS-SV), and Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI). Pearson correlation coefficient was used to correlate SAS scores and PQSI scores. Results: The prevalence of smartphone addiction in this study was found out to be 34.4%. 62.7% were poor sleepers as assessed by PQSI scores. There was a positive correlation between overall PQSI scores and SAS scores. In the subgroups, the correlation was significant for males and those residing in the hostel. Correlations were highly significant for younger age group (17–19) and 1st year of study. Conclusion: Excessive use of smartphones is prevalent among medical students and is related to poor sleep quality. This study further brings out the importance of the availability of counseling services to medical students, so that those already addicted can be helped and provided with remedial measures.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SMART PHONE USAGE AND SLEEP DISTURBANCES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISSTRESS AMONG STUDENTS

The increasing use of smartphone among young people is creating negative effects and is an important public health problem in many countries. Smartphone abuse and addiction may cause physical and psychological disorders among users. However, the awarenes on this issue has been inadequate due to lacking of evidence. Objectives: To describe the current situation of smartphone using among students at highschools and universities in Hue city and to examine the relationship between smartphone using and sleep disturbances and psychological disstress among participants. Methods: A cross-sectional study with a randomly selected sample of 1,150 students at highschools and universities in Hue city. SAS-SV scale was used to evaluate phone addiction status, K10 scale was used for psychological distress assessment and PSQI scale was used to examine the sleep quality. Results: The proportion of students at highschools and universities having smartphones was 78.0%. The rate of smartphone addiction among high school students was 49.1% and that among university students was 43.7%. There was 57.3% of high school students had poor sleep quality, and that of university students was 51.6%. There was a statistically significant association between smartphone addiction and sleep disturbances and psychological disstress among participants (p &lt;0.05). Conclusion: The prevalence of smartphone addiction among students at highschools and universities is alarming and is related to sleep disturbances and psychological disstress among participants. There is a strong call to develop intervention to help students to aware and manage the use of smartphone effectively.

The prevalence of smart phone addiction among students in medical sciences universities in Tehran 2016

Abstract Background and Aim: The use of smartphone technology has made significant development during recent years. The use of this technology in students' growth rate was higher. Besides the advantages of this technology, such as drug side effects may also occur. Despite the impairment nursing student safety and patient care is difficult. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of smart phone addiction among students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional study was conducted between April and June 1395. The study has been conducted on 150 nursing students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Quota cluster sampling was done. The research instrument was kwon questionnaire smart phone addiction. The questionnaire was returned by forward-backward translation in Farsi. The data were analyzed by independent t-test and Chi-square. SPSS-16 Software was used for analysis. Results: The mean smart phone addiction among students was 12.77 ± 32.94. 9.3% of students were addicted to the smart phone addiction. Between the hours of use of smart phones and Internet access and there is a single smart phone addiction (p <0.05). Conclusion: Smartphone addiction among students with prevalence was nearly ten percent. There is access to the Internet and the increased use of smart phones is associated with the disorder. The use and how to use smart phones in educational environments and health should be controlled. Keywords: Addiction, Smartphone, Nursing students

Adiksi Smartphone dan Faktor-Faktor yang Memengaruhinya pada Penumpang Transjakarta

Transjakarta passenger is one of the potraits of urban society that use smartphone in DKI Jakarta. Excessive use of smartphones can cause addiction for the users. This study intended to determine the prevalence of smartphone addiction of the Transjakarta passengers and the relationship of smartphone addiction related to risk factors, such as age, gender, educational status, job, and the common use of smartphones. This study used cross sectional multivariate analytical studies with the logistic regression of a total of 143 respondents selected by consecutive sampling at ten stations of Transjakarta. Fifty persons were asked to fill out the Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS) questionnaire. The majority of the sample were female (65%), aged of 21-25 years (53%), high school graduates (88%), working as employees (81%) and doing frequent communication daring (64%). Prevalence of Transjakarta passengers who were addicted to smartphones were 68%. Risk factors of smartphone additiction, including: gender, age, educational background, job, and the common use of smartphones did not significantly related to the status of smartphone addiction.Results of the logistic regression test showed that there was no significant relationship between smartphone addiction related to risk factors. But the high percentage of respondents who were addicted to smartphone should be taken into consideration for the prevention of smartphone addiction.