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A study on smartphone addiction and its effects on sleep quality among nursing students in a municipality town of West Bengal

BACKGROUND: Smartphones are now an important gadget for us, but the many are getting addicted to it. Researchers showed that smartphone addiction and late-night usage affects sleep quality. Indian nurses are already facing a heavy burden of depression and present position of nurses is quite insecure...

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Autores principales: Ghosh, Trishan, Sarkar, Deblina, Sarkar, Kingsuk, Dalai, Chanchal Kumar, Ghosal, Arnab
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8132780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34017757
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1657_20
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author Ghosh, Trishan
Sarkar, Deblina
Sarkar, Kingsuk
Dalai, Chanchal Kumar
Ghosal, Arnab
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Dalai, Chanchal Kumar
Ghosal, Arnab
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description BACKGROUND: Smartphones are now an important gadget for us, but the many are getting addicted to it. Researchers showed that smartphone addiction and late-night usage affects sleep quality. Indian nurses are already facing a heavy burden of depression and present position of nurses is quite insecure. Very few studies were performed over nursing students and that leads to the selection of this topic for my research. METHODOLOGY: It was a cross-sectional, observational, and questionnaire-based study, performed over B.Sc. Nursing students of University College of Nursing, WBUHS. The questionnaire has three parts. The first part was for sociodemographic variables, the second part measures the addictive phenomena associated with smartphone overuse using a Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS), the last part was intended to measure the sleep quality by using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Collected data was compiled and analyzed with the help of MS-Excel from Microsoft Office Package-2016. RESULTS: Out of 91 students, 46 students were found to be not addicted, while 45 were addicted to smartphone, as measured by SAS. On PSQI, 17.58% students were found to be good sleepers, while 82.42% came out to be poor sleepers. Significant association was found between age and smartphone addiction (p=0.000031) and between daily calls and sleep quality (p=0.025333). CONCLUSION: It can be finally concluded that increase in smartphone usage is now a serious matter of concern and lower age groups are more susceptible towards it. Broad-spectrum studies involving multiple institutions is needed to reveal the bigger picture
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spelling pubmed-81327802021-05-19 A study on smartphone addiction and its effects on sleep quality among nursing students in a municipality town of West Bengal Ghosh, Trishan Sarkar, Deblina Sarkar, Kingsuk Dalai, Chanchal Kumar Ghosal, Arnab J Family Med Prim Care Original Article BACKGROUND: Smartphones are now an important gadget for us, but the many are getting addicted to it. Researchers showed that smartphone addiction and late-night usage affects sleep quality. Indian nurses are already facing a heavy burden of depression and present position of nurses is quite insecure. Very few studies were performed over nursing students and that leads to the selection of this topic for my research. METHODOLOGY: It was a cross-sectional, observational, and questionnaire-based study, performed over B.Sc. Nursing students of University College of Nursing, WBUHS. The questionnaire has three parts. The first part was for sociodemographic variables, the second part measures the addictive phenomena associated with smartphone overuse using a Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS), the last part was intended to measure the sleep quality by using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Collected data was compiled and analyzed with the help of MS-Excel from Microsoft Office Package-2016. RESULTS: Out of 91 students, 46 students were found to be not addicted, while 45 were addicted to smartphone, as measured by SAS. On PSQI, 17.58% students were found to be good sleepers, while 82.42% came out to be poor sleepers. Significant association was found between age and smartphone addiction (p=0.000031) and between daily calls and sleep quality (p=0.025333). CONCLUSION: It can be finally concluded that increase in smartphone usage is now a serious matter of concern and lower age groups are more susceptible towards it. Broad-spectrum studies involving multiple institutions is needed to reveal the bigger picture Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-01 2021-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8132780/ /pubmed/34017757 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1657_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Ghosh, Trishan
Sarkar, Deblina
Sarkar, Kingsuk
Dalai, Chanchal Kumar
Ghosal, Arnab
A study on smartphone addiction and its effects on sleep quality among nursing students in a municipality town of West Bengal
title A study on smartphone addiction and its effects on sleep quality among nursing students in a municipality town of West Bengal
title_full A study on smartphone addiction and its effects on sleep quality among nursing students in a municipality town of West Bengal
title_fullStr A study on smartphone addiction and its effects on sleep quality among nursing students in a municipality town of West Bengal
title_full_unstemmed A study on smartphone addiction and its effects on sleep quality among nursing students in a municipality town of West Bengal
title_short A study on smartphone addiction and its effects on sleep quality among nursing students in a municipality town of West Bengal
title_sort study on smartphone addiction and its effects on sleep quality among nursing students in a municipality town of west bengal
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8132780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34017757
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1657_20
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