Mobile Phone Usage and Addiction - An Empirical Study amoung College Students (original) (raw)
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Archives of Epidemiology, 2019
Introduction: Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research is a tertiary health care institution. The adoption of mobile phones promotes an addiction-like behaviour and is evolving as a public health problem that renders them at risk of developing addictions. Aim and Objective: To study and compare the addiction like behaviour of mobile phone using adolescent and young adult medical students of SGRDIMSAR. Material and Methods: This was a cross sectional type of study conducted amongst adolescent (age < 19years) and young adult (age >19 years) medical students of SGRDIMSAR, Sri Amritsar from October 2018 to January 2019 upon 412 medical students willing to participate in the study. These medical students were divided into two groups i.e. adolescents and young adults. A series of 20 standardised questions having two responses i.e. agree and disagree was used to assess their addiction like behaviour. The effects of mobile phone on it's users were divided into following groups i.e. Anxiety, Lack of control, Lack of priority for urgent matters, Trouble caused to mobile phone user and other addiction like effects of mobile phone use. These were analyzed statistically by applying the ꭓ 2 test and the valid conclusions were drawn. Results: Total 412 medical students of SGRDIMSAR were studied. Among these students 102 (24.7%) were the adolescents and 310 (75.3%) were young adults. Among the 20 questions related to the addiction like behaviour of the medical students using the mobile phones, for the 19 questions, higher percentage of young adults was found than the adolescents who agreed for the questions asked. For question regarding complaining by friends and family about their excessive mobile phone use higher number and percentage, 163 (55.8%) of adolescents agreed as compared to young adults, 57 (52.5%), that was contrary to the responses given by them to the other questions. Conclusion: Higher percentage had shown the addiction like behaviour in young adults than adolescents due mobile phone use. This might be due to the reason that they had higher age; thus they might have used the mobile phones for the longer period of time. It is recommended that further studies should be conducted on smartphone users and large sample size of study subjects should be taken. Now among the students using mobile phones/smartphones; as both are in use now, early diagnosis and management of addiction like behavior should be done.
The study was conducted to assess the level of addiction and attitude towards mobile phone use among students of a selected college – Chennai. The overall aim of the study is to find out the various aspects of mobile phone addiction, and the level of mobile phone addiction and attitude towards mobile phone use among the students in a selected college. The objectives of the study were to assess the level of mobile phone addiction among college students, to assess the attitude of college students towards mobile phones, to assess the correlation between the level of addiction and attitude towards mobile phone use among the college students, to associate the level of addiction of college students to mobile phone use with the demographic variables and to associate the attitude of college students towards mobile phone use with demographic variables. The conceptual framework was developed based on NOLA J PENDER'S HPM (1982). CV for the tool has been obtained from experts. The reliability of the tool is 0.89 for addiction and 0.96 for attitude. After the pilot study the data collection procedure proceeded. The study was conducted in Loyola College of arts and science, Chennai. The data collected from the subjects were analyzed using descriptive (Frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation), 't' test and inferential (chi square) statistical methods. The study showed that 73(52.1%) of them had moderate addiction, 57(40.7%) of them had mild addiction and 10(7.1%) of them had severe addiction. showed that 107 (76.4%) of sample had moderately favourable attitude, 30 (21.4%) of sample had favourable attitude and 3 (2.1%) had unfavourable attitude towards mobile phone use. The 'r' value 0.02 shows there is weak positive correlation between the level of addiction and attitude and the 'p' value of 0.86 shows there is no significant correlation between mobile phone addiction and attitude. There is significant association between the demographic variables such as year of study, type of mobile phone currently using, hours of usage of mobile phones per day, number of mobile phones currently using, number of sim cards currently using and the level of addiction to mobile phone. It indicates that mobile phone addiction among college students is influenced by the type of mobile phone, the hours of usage per day, number of mobile phones and number of sim cards used. The study concluded that more than half of the college students had moderate level of mobile phone addiction and two third of students had moderately favourable attitude towards mobile phone use.
MOBILE PHONE ADDICTION AMONG HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CHENNAI CITY
IASET, 2021
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MOBILE PHONES ADDICTION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: EVIDENCE FROM TWIN CITIES OF PAKISTAN
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New Media, 2022
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IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS), 2017
Mobile phone is a new technological tool in the field of communication, use of which may involve risk of abuse and addictive behaviour. In recent years there is an increase in prevalence of mobile phone dependence among younger population. Objective:To assess mobile phone dependence and self-perceived effects among medical students. Methodology:A descriptive cross-sectional study was done among 200 MBBS students during May 2016. Modified Mobile Phone Dependence Questionnaire (MPDQ) with 20 items each with ratings 0, 1, 2, and 3with total scores ranging from 0 to 60 was used for assessing dependence. The questionnaire was self-administered after taking informed consent. Subjects with scores in the highest quartile were put in the high-dependence category. Epi-data version 3.1 and SPSS version 16 used for data entry and analysis. Results:Among 200 MBBS students aged 17 to 24 years, 38.5% were males, 61.5% were females and 38%day scholars,62% hostellers. Mean score for mobile phone dependence was19.62±7.84 and high dependence was seen in 26% subjects. Self-attribution of mobile phone dependence was seen in 51%. Self-perceived effects observed were eyestrain (51%),headache(38.5%),sleep disturbances(33%), anxiety(25.5%) academic disturbances(27.5%), problems in relationships(7%),accidents etc. Conclusion:There is need to create awareness regarding mobile phone dependence and its physical and psychosocial effects.
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Society for Scientific Research, 2024
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