Background: Smartphone addiction is an increasing problem among university students worldwide. Excessive smartphone use can lead to unfavorable outcomes such as social isolation and poor academic achievement. Assessing the utilization of smartphones at level extremely necessary. Objectives: The study aim was investigate prevalence medical assess its relationship with sleep quality. Methods: A c...

BACKGROUND Research literature on problematic smartphone use, or smartphone addiction, has proliferated. However, relationships with existing categories of psychopathology are not well defined. We discuss the concept of problematic smartphone use, including possible causal pathways to such use. METHOD We conducted a systematic review of the relationship between problematic use with psychopath...

Abstract Background Problematic smartphone use (PSU) is defined as a maladaptive causing significant impairment in several areas of the individual and interpersonal functioning. Smartphones allow people to access internet social media at all times, providing illusion being constant connection with world. Literature has shown that more frequent young adults, it associated psychological difficult...

The purpose of this study is to test the relationships between teacher candidates' technology addiction and their social connectedness. Students studying at a faculty education in state university selected by convenience sampling method constituted sample study. Correlation analysis association rules were used analyze data. results are as follows: (1) Social connectedness inversely related medi...

Addiction to smartphones, particularly among adolescents, has reached alarming proportions, rivaling or perhaps exceeding internet addiction as the most widespread kind of dependence in modern culture. Evaluating degree problematic smartphone use habits by experts and identifying vulnerable ones steer right treatment program become a critical issue. Since such task may involve an abundance crit...

ABSTRACT Objective to analyze the factors associated with smartphone addiction in nursing students. Method a descriptive, correlational and quantitative study, conducted two public universities Northeast of Brazil, from April June 2019. Four instruments were used for purpose data collection: sociodemographic characterization, Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT), Pittsburgh Sleep Qu...

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between smartphone addiction and parenting levels mothers whose 18-48-month-old with chronic diseases. Materials Methods: research analytical-cross-sectional type. was conducted by face-to-face interview 140 were accompanying 18-48 months-old-children diseases in a university hospital western Turkey February 2021 March 2022 agreed part...