Инт Ј Адолесц Мед Хеалтх. КСНУМКС Апр КСНУМКС. пии: /ј/ијамх.ахеад-оф-принт/ијамх-КСНУМКС-КСНУМКС/ијамх-КСНУМКС-КСНУМКС.кмл.
дои: КСНУМКС / ијамх-КСНУМКС-КСНУМКС.
Venkatesh E1, Jemal MY2, Samani AS2.
Апстрактан
Намена
The main aim of this research is to explore measures of smart phone usage, smart phone addiction, and their associations with demographic and health behavior-related variables among dental students in Saudi Arabia.
Методе
A Cross sectional study involving sample of 205 dental students from Qaseem Private College were surveyed for smart phone use and addiction using the short version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale for Adolescents (SAS-SV).
Резултати
Smart phone addiction was seen in 136 (71.9%) of the 189 students. The findings from our study revealed that high stress levels, low physical activity, higher body mass index (BMI), longer duration of smart phone usage, higher frequency of usage, shorter time period until first smart phone use in the morning and social networking sites (SNS) were associated significantly with the smart phone addiction.
Zakljucak
The current research gives the information about the extent of smart phone over usage and addiction among the dental students in Saudi Arabia with indication of the predictors of addiction and the need for further research in the area with comprehensible interpretation to spread the awareness of the smart phone addiction.
КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ:
SAS-SV; smart phone; smart phone addiction
ПМИД: КСНУМКС
дои: КСНУМКС / ијамх-КСНУМКС-КСНУМКС
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