Prevalence of smartphone addiction and its relation with sleep disturbance and low self- esteem among medical college students

Abstract

Background: Use of smartphone is on the increase worldwide. They have revolutionized our lives to an extent that was unimaginable before the pandemic. Excessive use of smartphones reaching the levels of potential addiction among medical students and its relation to individual's sleep quality and self-esteem led us to study this prevalence. Aim: This stuay aimed to study the prevalence of smartphone addiction and its relation with self-esteem and sleep disturbance in medical college students. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional analytical study was carried out and the prevalence of smartphone addiction, self- esteem, and sleep disturbance was measured using standardized questionnaires smartphone addiction scale short form, Rosenberg self esteem scale, Pittsburgh sleep quality index assessment respectively. Results: Prevalence of smartphone addiction among medical college students was 52%. Smartphone addiction was seen more in boys than girls. There was a significant association between the smartphone addiction and sleep disturbance. However, there was no significant association between smartphone addiction and low self-esteem. Conclusion: The prevalence of smartphone addiction among medical students is found to be high and is associated with poor sleep.

Smartphone Addiction among Nursing and Health Students

“…Previous research has examined excessive smartphone use among nursing and health students. The review findings indicated that studies have been conducted in Spain (Aguilera-Manrique et al, 2018;Gutiérrez-Puertas et al, 2019), Pakistan (Javaid et al, 2019), Saudi Arabia (Alhazmi et al, 2018;Alkhateeb et al, 2020;Venkatesh et al, 2016), Iran (Miri et al, 2019;Mohammadi et al, 2018), Oman (Siddiqi et al, 2017), India (Bartwal & Nath, 2020;Basu et al, 2018;Dhamija et al, 2021;Jahagirdar et al, 2021), Thailand (Boonluksiri, 2018;Tangmunkongvorakul et al, 2019), Turkey (Cerit et al, 2018), China (Chen et al, 2017;Song et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2021;Zhou et al, 2022), the United States (Brubaker & Beverly, 2020), South Korea (Sok et al, 2019), Malaysia (Lei et al, 2020), and Indonesia (Hanafi et al, 2019). The studies' samples included students of medicine, dentistry, nursing, physiotherapy, and other health sciences.…”

“…A study conducted in India by Jahagirdar et al (2021) reported that the prevalence of smartphone addiction among medical students was 81.1%. Findings from the same country indicated that 33.3% of women and 46.1% of men experienced smartphone addiction (Chatterjee & Kar, 2021), with a prevalence of 52% (Dhamija et al, 2021). Lei et al (2020) also reported that 40.6% of medical students in Malaysia experienced smartphone addiction, with men having higher rates of addiction than women.…”

Problematic smartphone use and sleep disturbance: the roles of metacognitions, desire thinking, and emotion regulation

“…Metacognition is a multifaceted concept that is broadly defined (in the psychopathology arena) as knowledge of mental activities ('metacognitions') and strategies for appraising, monitoring, and regulating cognition, which can include worry, rumination, thought suppression and threat monitoring, for example (20). Two levels of sleep-related arousal involve metacognition and cognition processes.…”