Prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related factors among pre-clinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus 2016

Background. Smartphone addiction is a phenomenon whereby a person is unable to cut down the smartphone use and it triggers physiological stress because of overuse and leads to anxiety when their smartphones are not with them. Medical students are among the population developing smartphone addiction....

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Main Authors:	Pasi, Hafizah, Mohd Rus, Razman, Ab Rahman, Jamalludin, Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim, Nasreen, Hashima E, Yusof, Muhammad Zubir
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/52687/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/52687/11/52687.pdf

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spelling	iium-526872016-12-15T01:35:01Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/52687/ Prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related factors among pre-clinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus 2016 Pasi, Hafizah Mohd Rus, Razman Ab Rahman, Jamalludin Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim Nasreen, Hashima E Yusof, Muhammad Zubir RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Background. Smartphone addiction is a phenomenon whereby a person is unable to cut down the smartphone use and it triggers physiological stress because of overuse and leads to anxiety when their smartphones are not with them. Medical students are among the population developing smartphone addiction. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related factors among preclinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus. Methods. A cross-sectional study using simple random sampling involving 200 medical students of IIUM Kuantan Campus Year 1 and Year 2 of both genders. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire through an online website which is a Google Form between 13 and 18 July 2016. Study tools used was Smartphone Addiction Scale: Short Version (SAS-SV), a validated structured questionnaire with Cronbach’s Alpha value of 0.966. Factors studied include gender, year of study, household income, time consumption, expenditure and purpose. Data were analyzed by using SPSS version 23.0. The percentage of each variable was calculated and the differences were tested using chi-square test. The p value was taken at p <0.05 as significant. Results. This study revealed that the prevalence of smartphone addiction among pre-clinical medical students of IIUM Kuantan is 50.0%. Year of study (p=0.004) and average number of hours spent (p=0.001) are statistically significant to become factors of associated with smartphone addiction. Second year student is found to be more addicted than the first year students to smartphone (61.6% versus 41.2%), whereas for average number of hours spent on smartphone, the percentage of smartphone addition is highest among those who spent more than 6 hours on their smartphone (72.2%). However; gender, household income, monthly expenditure and primary purpose of using smartphone were all found to be not significant to become factors related to smartphone addiction, even though the percentage are higher among those with household income of between RM 2000 to RM 2999 (65.2%), male (59.6%), spent more than RM 100 a month on their smartphone (100.0%) and among those who use smartphone for non-Social Network Services (54.5%) Conclusion. The prevalence of those who have smartphone addiction among preclinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus is 50.0% and only year of study and average number of hours spent are statistically significant to become factors related to smartphone addiction. Thus, this shows that smartphone addiction is documented among IIUM medical students and warrants a closer look and appropriate reference for those who have the addiction. In addition, further research should be done with expanded approach to students of other kulliyyah or universities in Malaysia to determine its magnitude and severity. 2016-10 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/52687/11/52687.pdf Pasi, Hafizah and Mohd Rus, Razman and Ab Rahman, Jamalludin and Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim and Nasreen, Hashima E and Yusof, Muhammad Zubir (2016) Prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related factors among pre-clinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus 2016. In: 2nd Sabah Regional Public Health Conference & 11th Sabah Public Health Colloqium :Innovation & Transformation: Regional Public Health Of the Future, 11-14 October 2016, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Pasi, Hafizah Mohd Rus, Razman Ab Rahman, Jamalludin Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim Nasreen, Hashima E Yusof, Muhammad Zubir Prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related factors among pre-clinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus 2016
description	Background. Smartphone addiction is a phenomenon whereby a person is unable to cut down the smartphone use and it triggers physiological stress because of overuse and leads to anxiety when their smartphones are not with them. Medical students are among the population developing smartphone addiction. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related factors among preclinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus. Methods. A cross-sectional study using simple random sampling involving 200 medical students of IIUM Kuantan Campus Year 1 and Year 2 of both genders. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire through an online website which is a Google Form between 13 and 18 July 2016. Study tools used was Smartphone Addiction Scale: Short Version (SAS-SV), a validated structured questionnaire with Cronbach’s Alpha value of 0.966. Factors studied include gender, year of study, household income, time consumption, expenditure and purpose. Data were analyzed by using SPSS version 23.0. The percentage of each variable was calculated and the differences were tested using chi-square test. The p value was taken at p <0.05 as significant. Results. This study revealed that the prevalence of smartphone addiction among pre-clinical medical students of IIUM Kuantan is 50.0%. Year of study (p=0.004) and average number of hours spent (p=0.001) are statistically significant to become factors of associated with smartphone addiction. Second year student is found to be more addicted than the first year students to smartphone (61.6% versus 41.2%), whereas for average number of hours spent on smartphone, the percentage of smartphone addition is highest among those who spent more than 6 hours on their smartphone (72.2%). However; gender, household income, monthly expenditure and primary purpose of using smartphone were all found to be not significant to become factors related to smartphone addiction, even though the percentage are higher among those with household income of between RM 2000 to RM 2999 (65.2%), male (59.6%), spent more than RM 100 a month on their smartphone (100.0%) and among those who use smartphone for non-Social Network Services (54.5%) Conclusion. The prevalence of those who have smartphone addiction among preclinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus is 50.0% and only year of study and average number of hours spent are statistically significant to become factors related to smartphone addiction. Thus, this shows that smartphone addiction is documented among IIUM medical students and warrants a closer look and appropriate reference for those who have the addiction. In addition, further research should be done with expanded approach to students of other kulliyyah or universities in Malaysia to determine its magnitude and severity.
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author	Pasi, Hafizah Mohd Rus, Razman Ab Rahman, Jamalludin Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim Nasreen, Hashima E Yusof, Muhammad Zubir
author_facet	Pasi, Hafizah Mohd Rus, Razman Ab Rahman, Jamalludin Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim Nasreen, Hashima E Yusof, Muhammad Zubir
author_sort	Pasi, Hafizah
title	Prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related factors among pre-clinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus 2016
title_short	Prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related factors among pre-clinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus 2016
title_full	Prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related factors among pre-clinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus 2016
title_fullStr	Prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related factors among pre-clinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus 2016
title_full_unstemmed	Prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related factors among pre-clinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus 2016
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publishDate	2016
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Prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related factors among pre-clinical students at IIUM Kuantan Campus 2016

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