Effect of an Educational Program on Healthy Use of Mobile Phone among Faculty of Nursing Students

Abstract

Tool: An interviewing questionnaire for the assessment of students' knowledge about the mobile phone, uses of mobile phone in academic and nonacademic activities and students' practices as stated by them regarding mobile phone healthy use Results: The study noted that there were statistically significant differences between students' knowledge about meaning of cell phone, function of cell phone, type of cell phone radiation, the distance between the cell phone and the eye, changes of cell phone on the body, effects of radiation from cell phone, effects of electromagnetic waves, effects of sleeping near to a cell phone and effects of long term use throughout the program as well, between their practices regarding receiving calls, during communication, carrying a cell phone and using multimedia throughout the program. However, there was statistically insignificant difference between impacts of cell phone on social aspects on the studied subjects throughout the program. Conclusion:The results concluded that, there was significant improvement in the students' knowledge regarding healthy mobile phone use, healthy practices of mobile phone as they sated at the post test compared with pretest, while there was an insignificant improvement related to effects of mobile phone on the Faculty of Nursing students. Recommendations: More studies in this field are urgently needed with large probability sample from different geographical areas to allow greater representation and generalization of the results, to develop health education programs for students about effects of mobile phone