Smartphones have become an integral part of our everyday life due to its varied and advanced functionality and easy availability. The nearly universal availability of smartphones and the close association of this with humans has led to various concerns about it becoming a part of behavioral addiction. In this study, smartphone addiction was assessed by using the short version of smartphone addiction scale (SAS-SV) and an attempt has been made to analyse the behavioral component associated with addiction.Semi-structured questionnaire containing socio-demographic variables were given to 200 students. SAS-SV scale was used to assess smartphone addiction among the study sample.Results showed 26.9% male and 28% of female participants were addicted to smartphones according to SAS-SV scores. 43% male and 19% female participants spend > 5 hrs using smartphones per day and 8% of female participants and 6.4% of males spend > 5 hrs on social media. Withdrawal, conflict, tolerance and salience were the psychological features observed in our study sample. In conclusion, smartphone addiction was found to be around 26.9% and 28% among the male and female respondents by using the SAS-SV scale. In our study 8% of girls and 6.4% of boys agreed that they spend more than 5 hours on social media every day. Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook were the commonly used social media sites used by them. The findings in our study did correlate with Brown’s well established framework for behavioral addiction especially behavior like withdrawal, conflict, tolerance and salience.

Depression is caused as a multifactorial psychiatric disorder and the reasons associated are genes, environmental, psychological, and biological factors. There are several molecular changes in the pathogenesis of depression. Antioxidants in the body like catalase was found to be deranged in patients suffering from depression. The present observational cases-control study was carried out in the Physiology Department of Rural Medical College Loni in collaboration with Psychiatry department. Total 183 subjects recruited for study. Out of total subjects 83 patients were diagnosed with depression and 100 were normal individuals without any psychiatric disorder. A non-probabilistic international sampling method was adopted for the selection of subjects. Significant decrease in serum catalase was observed in patient suffering from depression as compared to normal healthy individuals (p value < 0.05).The present study finds decreased serum catalase levels in patient suffering from depression as compared to the normal healthy controls.

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