FREQUENCY AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS OF SMARTPHONE ADDICTION AMONG NURSING STUDENTS

Abstract

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION For people all across the world, smartphones have significantly impacted

their daily lives. OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the prevalence and contributing variables of

smartphone addiction among nursing students at Jinnah Sindh Medical University and Ziauddin

University Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery in Karachi. METHODOLOGY: Over three months,

from October to December 2021, 360 BS Nursing students of both sexes participated in a crosssectional study. Using a non-probability purposive sampling technique, the respondents were

approached. The Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS), a structured and tested technique, was utilised

to collect the data. An independent sample t-test was used to compare SAS mean scores for gender

and academic failure outcomes. These mean scores were contrasted with other baseline features and

examined factors using one-way ANOVA. Statistics were considered significant for P-values under

0.05. RESULTS: There were 360 participants in the study, of which 183 (50.8%) were female and

247 (68.6%) were students. Just 21 (5.8%) of the individuals had a history of academic failure. 163

people, or 45.3%, were living with family, while the remaining 197 people, or 54.7%, were staying

with friends, family, or hostels. The average score for smartphone addiction was 123.318.16. No

statistically significant findings were found for the study variables associated with smartphone

addiction. CONCLUSION: In both public and private settings, nursing students exhibit a remarkably

high prevalence of smartphone addiction.