Relation of smartphone addiction to sleep quality and social isolation among medical students at minia university during Covid era
Ezzat, A., Mohammed, E., Hassan, E., Abdelrazeq, E. (2023). Relation of smartphone addiction to sleep quality and social isolation among medical students at minia university during Covid era. EKB Journal Management System, (), -. doi: 10.21608/mjmr.2023.220858.1449
Aya Ezzat; Eman Sameh Mohammed; Ebtesam Esmail Hassan; Eman Fathi Abdelrazeq. "Relation of smartphone addiction to sleep quality and social isolation among medical students at minia university during Covid era". EKB Journal Management System, , , 2023, -. doi: 10.21608/mjmr.2023.220858.1449
Ezzat, A., Mohammed, E., Hassan, E., Abdelrazeq, E. (2023). 'Relation of smartphone addiction to sleep quality and social isolation among medical students at minia university during Covid era', EKB Journal Management System, (), pp. -. doi: 10.21608/mjmr.2023.220858.1449
Ezzat, A., Mohammed, E., Hassan, E., Abdelrazeq, E. Relation of smartphone addiction to sleep quality and social isolation among medical students at minia university during Covid era. EKB Journal Management System, 2023; (): -. doi: 10.21608/mjmr.2023.220858.1449

Relation of smartphone addiction to sleep quality and social isolation among medical students at minia university during Covid era

Minia Journal of Medical Research
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 17 August 2023  XML
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/mjmr.2023.220858.1449
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Authors
Aya Ezzat email 1; Eman Sameh Mohammed2; Ebtesam Esmail Hassan3; Eman Fathi Abdelrazeq4
1department of public health and family medicine, Faculty of medicine, Minia university
2Public Health, FACULTY OF MEDICINE. MINIA UNIVERSITY
3community medicine, faculty of medicine, minia university, minia , egypt
4department of public health, faculty of medicine, minia university
Abstract
Background: the use of smartphones has increased rapidly. Because of the rapid adoption of new technologies, technology-related consequences are of great interest. The usage of new technology is increasing, particularly among young people, but not exclusively. The Internet is used by 50% of the world's population, and more than 3.8 billion people (or about 49% of the world's population) own a smartphone.

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence & evaluate factors of mobile phone and internet addiction among medical students at Minia university. To assess the prevalence of sleep disturbance in medical students and the association between mobile phone use and sleep disturbance.

METHODS: an observational cross-sectional study conducted on a random sample of medical students in faculty of medicine Minia universty Minia, Egypt.

RESULTS: Three hundred and eighty-five students participated in this study; About 61.7% of medical university students in the current study meet the criteria for smartphone addiction with no significant difference between genders. Smartphone addicts showed significant increase in level of loneliness than non addicts (p=0.024). Regarding sleep quality, the number of bad sleepers was significantly higher(84.6%) (p = 0.003) in smartphone addicts than non addicts.

CONCLUSIONS: prevalence of smartphone addiction increased significantly during Covid era due to lockdown. Main Predictors of smartphone addiction were found to be sleep disturbance, social networking, social isolation and poor academic achievement.
Keywords
Smartphone addiction; social isolation; Covid; sleep quality
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