cell phone is now considered by its users as an entertainment and also a media in addition to serving them as a telecommunication instrument and having a cell phone has more implications for them. in this study, the author has tried to discuss these additional functions and implications through an online survey of a number of cell phone users regardless of its communicational functions  the res...

Background: There has been a growing claim that cell phone usage may have a detrimental effect on sperm chromatin. Infertile men possess anomalies in the composition of their sperm nuclei, displaying higher levels of loosely packaged chromatin and damaged DNA. In this study we examined the relationship of cell phone radiation and the protection effect of alpha_tocopherol on human sperm DNA. Mat...

The Pattern of Structural Relationships Mobile Phone Addiction in Male Students Based on Negative Excitement and Boredom Proneness with the Mediating Role Self-Monitoring: A Descriptive Study

BACKGROUND Technology use has shown an impact of users' lifestyle. The use has been attributed to psychosocial reasons. This usage manifests as excessive to addictive use of technology. There is a need to explore its addictive potential on large sample study as well as its association with psychosocial variables. It is one of its kind study on wider age group. The present work assessed the magn...

Aim: There is a few studies examining primary headaches and online gaming or smartphone addiction in line with causality. 
 Material Method: Children adolescents, aged 11-18 years old, those diagnosed of tension-type headache migrain were evaluated terms game addiction. Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version (SAS-SV) Online Game Scale (OGAS) was used. SPSS 17.0 program used for statistic...

BACKGROUND With regard to large number of mobile users especially among college students in Iran, addiction to mobile phone is attracting increasing concern. There is an urgent need for reliable and valid instrument to measure this phenomenon. This study examines validity and reliability of the Persian version of mobile phone addiction scale (MPAIS) in college students. MATERIALS AND METHODS ...

This study developed a Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale (SAPS) based on the existing internet and cellular phone addiction scales. For the development of this scale, 29 items (1.5 times the final number of items) were initially selected as preliminary items, based on the previous studies on internet/phone addiction as well as the clinical experience of involved experts. The preliminary scal...

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...