Smartphone usage and increased risk of mobile phone addiction: A concurrent study

Subramani Parasuraman, Aaseer Thamby Sam, Stephanie Wong Kah Yee, Bobby Lau Chik Chuon, Lee Yu Ren, Subramani Parasuraman, Aaseer Thamby Sam, Stephanie Wong Kah Yee, Bobby Lau Chik Chuon, Lee Yu Ren

Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to study the mobile phone addiction behavior and awareness on electromagnetic radiation (EMR) among a sample of Malaysian population.

Methods: This online study was conducted between December 2015 and 2016. The study instrument comprised eight segments, namely, informed consent form, demographic details, habituation, mobile phone fact and EMR details, mobile phone awareness education, psychomotor (anxious behavior) analysis, and health issues. Frequency of the data was calculated and summarized in the results.

Results: Totally, 409 respondents participated in the study. The mean age of the study participants was 22.88 (standard error = 0.24) years. Most of the study participants developed dependency with smartphone usage and had awareness (level 6) on EMR. No significant changes were found on mobile phone addiction behavior between the participants having accommodation on home and hostel.

Conclusion: The study participants were aware about mobile phone/radiation hazards and many of them were extremely dependent on smartphones. One-fourth of the study population were found having feeling of wrist and hand pain because of smartphone use which may lead to further physiological and physiological complication.

Keywords: Dependency; electromagnetic radiation; mobile phone addiction; smartphone.

Conflict of interest statement

There are no conflflicts of interest.

References

    1. Meet Marty Cooper – The Inventor of the Mobile Phone. [Last accessed on 2016 Nov 02]. Available from: .
    1. ICT Facts and Figures-The World in 2015. [Last accessed on 2016 Nov 02]. Available from: .
    1. Duerson MH. We're Addicted to our Phones: 84% Worldwide say they couldn't go a Single day without their Mobile Device in their Hand. New York Daily News. [Last accessed on 2016 Nov 05]. Available from: .
    1. Wallace K. Half of Teens Think they're Addicted to their Smartphones. [Last accessed on 2016 Nov 05]. Available from:
    1. Billieux JL, van der Linden M, Rochat L. The role of impulsivity in actual and problematic use of the mobile phone. Appl Cogn Psychol. 2008;22:1195–210.
    1. Peraman R, Parasuraman S. Mobile phone mania: Arising global threat in public health. J Nat Sci Biol Med. 2016;7:198–200.
    1. Parasuraman S, Kah Yee SW, Chuon BL, Ren LY. Behavioural, biochemical, and pathological alterations induced by electromagnetic radiation in Sprague-Dawley rats. BLDE Univ J Health Sci. 2016;1:61–3.
    1. Kesari KK, Siddiqui MH, Meena R, Verma HN, Kumar S. Cell phone radiation exposure on brain and associated biological systems. Indian J Exp Biol. 2013;51:187–200.
    1. Jeong HS, Lee YS. Smartphone addiction and empathy among nursing students. Adv Sci Technol Lett. 2015;88:224–8.
    1. Roberts JA, Yaya LH, Manolis C. The invisible addiction: Cell-phone activities and addiction among male and female college students. J Behav Addict. 2014;3:254–65.
    1. Chen H. Asia's Smartphone Addiction. [Last accessed on 2016 Nov 05]. Available from: .
    1. Babadi-Akashe Z, Zamani BE, Abedini Y, Akbari H, Hedayati N. The relationship between mental health and addiction to mobile phones among university students of Shahrekord, Iran. Addict Health. 2014;6:93–9.
    1. De-Sola J, Talledo H, Rubio G, de Fonseca FR. Development of a mobile phone addiction craving scale and its validation in a Spanish adult population. Front Psychiatry. 2017;8:90.
    1. Mobile Phone Addiction Plagues Chinese Youth. [Last accessed on 2017 Jan 15]. Available from: .
    1. Salehan M, Negahban A. Social networking on smartphones: When mobile phones become addictive. Comput Hum Behav. 2013;29:2632–9.
    1. Bhatia MS. Cell Phone Dependence – A new diagnostic entity. Delhi Psychiatry J. 2008;1:123–4.
    1. Sahin S, Ozdemir K, Unsal A, Temiz N. Evaluation of mobile phone addiction level and sleep quality in university students. Pak J Med Sci. 2013;29:913–8.
    1. Richard E, Rodney B, Cedric C, Jamon C, Danielle D, Samuel G, et al. The truth about smartphone addiction. Coll Student J. 2015;49:291–9.
    1. Leonard J. 16 Seriously Damaging Side Effects of your Smartphone Addiction. [Last accessed on 2017 Jan 15]. Available from:
    1. Jeong S, Kim H, Yum J, Hwang Y. What type of content are smartphone users addicted to? SNS vs. games. Comput Hum Behav. 2016;54:10–7.
    1. Thomée S, Härenstam A, Hagberg M. Mobile phone use and stress, sleep disturbances, and symptoms of depression among young adults – A prospective cohort study. BMC Public Health. 2011;11:66.

Source: PubMed

スポンサーと協力者

医学的状態

薬物療法

3
購読する