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Research Paper | Nursing | India | Volume 9 Issue 5, May 2020
An Explorative Study to Assess the Usage of Smart Phone and its Impact on the Health among Adolescents Attending Selected Colleges of Gurugram, Haryana
Monica Banik | Rajwant Kaur [5] | Jyotsna Jacob [2]
Abstract: A cell is a device that can make & receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving a wide geographic area. As every innovation and technology has pros and cons, mobile use has advantages and disadvantages. At present, India has 791 million cell phone users. BY the end of 2017, this figure is estimated to rise 700 million. There are many other evil connected with use of mobile phones users especially among teenagers. Objective was to assess the patter of usage of smart phone among adolescents attending selected colleges & to determine the impact of usage of smart phone on health among adolescents attending selected college of Gurugarm. An explorative study was conducted by using pen & paper method & the data was analyzed by using descriptive statistic method. Finding reveals that the impacts of using smart phone among adolescents were moderate according to the scoring criteria given by the experts. The prevalence of mobile phone usage was moderate. There was significance association between selected health problems & mobile phone usage.
Keywords: Assess, Usage of smart phone, impact on health, adolescents and health
Edition: Volume 9 Issue 5, May 2020,
Pages: 284 - 287