R D Ramesh Naidu, Asis De, K Vijaya, G. Srinivasa Rao, J.S. Surya Prabha, P. Kiran and A.V. Suresh. Comparative Study on Smart Mobile Phone Usage Pattern, and It’s Dependence among Medical and Engineering Students at ANES Campus, Visakhapatnam, India.
. 2021; 9(4):149-152. doi: 10.12691/AJPHR-9-4-4
smart mobile phone usage, dependence, professional colleges
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit
[1] | Sanjay D, Harish S, Bhagwat AK, Arpita B, Abhilasha G, Alia KZ, et al. A study to evaluate mobile phone dependence among students of a medical college and associated hospital of central India. Ind J Comm Med. 2010; 35(2): 339-41. |
|
[2] | Main.trai.gov.in. (2019). Telecom regulatory authority of india. [online] Available at: https://main.trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/PR_No.49of2019_0.pdf [Accessed 10 Aug. 2019]. |
|
[3] | Dixit S, Shukla H, Bhagwat A. A Study to Evaluate Mobile Phone Dependence among Students of a Medical College and Associated Hospital of Central India. Indian Journal of Community Medicine: Official Publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine. 2010; 35(2):339-341. |
|
[4] | Elhai, J. D., Dvorak, R. D., Levine, J. C., & Hall, B. J. Problematic Smartphone Use: Conceptual Overview and Systematic Review of Relations with Anxiety and Depression Psychopathology. Journal of Affective Disorders (2017), 207, 251-259. |
|
[5] | Kwon, M., Kim, D.-J., Cho, H., & Yang, S.. The Smartphone Addiction Scale: Development and Validation of a Short Version for Adolescents. PlosONE (2013), 8e83558. |
|
[6] | Lopez-Fernandez O. Short Version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale Adapted to Spanish and French: Towards a Cross-Cultural Research in Problematic Mobile Phone Use. Addictive Behaviors. 2015; 64: 275-280. |
|
[7] | Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore Annual survey on Infocomm use in households and by individuals. Singapore: Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore press (2008). 22-28. |
|
[8] | Dixit S, Shukla H, Bhagwat AK, Bindal A, Goyal A, Zaidi AK, et al. A study to evaluate mobile phone dependence among students of a medical college and associated hospital of Central India. Indian J Community Med. 2010; 35(2): 339-41. |
|
[9] | Arumugam B, Sachi S, Nagalingam S. A descriptive study on behaviour associated with mobile phone usage and its effect on health among medical students in Chennai. J Evolution Med Dental Sci. 2014; 3(7): 1590-5. |
|
[10] | Gupta N, Krishnamurthy V, Gupta J. Gadget dependency among medical college students in Delhi. In J Community Health. 2013; 25(4): 362-6. |
|
[11] | Nehra R, Kate N, Grover S, Khehra N, Basu D. Does the excessive use of mobile phones in young adults reflect an emerging behavioural addiction? J Postgrad Med Edu Res. 2012; 46(4): 177-82. |
|
[12] | Kobayashi T, Boase J. No such effect? The implications of measurement error in self-report measures of mobile communication use. Commun Methods Meas. 2012; 6: 1-18. |
|
[13] | Abeele MV, Beullens K, Roe K. Measuring mobile phone use: gender, age and real usage level in relation to the accuracy and validity of self-reported mobile phone use. Mob Med Commun. 2013; 1: 213-236. |
|
[14] | Boase J, Ling R. Measuring mobile phone use: self-report versus log data. J Comput Mediat Commun. 2013; 18: 508-519. |
|
[15] | Macro - market analysis and consumer research organization, A report on study of mobile phone usage among the teenagers and youth in Mumbai, April-May-2004. Available at https://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/futuremobile/socialaspects/IndiaMacroMobileYouthStudy04.pdf. |
|
[16] | Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact and it’s the plague of our 24/7age article of NEWS and current Affairs. Available from: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23468919-details. |
|