Citation

Okasha T, Saad A, Ibrahim I, Elhabiby M, Khalil S, Morsy M. Int. J. Soc. Psychiatry 2022; 68(8): 1580-1588.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/00207640211042917

PMID

34479450

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Smartphone addiction is considered currently as a public health concern especially among university students.
AIM: The study assesses the prevalence of smartphone addiction and its sociodemographic and psychiatric correlates among Egyptian university students.
METHODS: A random sample of 1,380 undergraduate Egyptian university students from different universities were assessed using the smartphone addiction short scale, Beck depression Inventory, Beck anxiety Inventory, Pittsburgh sleep Quality Index, and Columbia suicide severity scale.
RESULTS: About 59% are smartphone addicts without any gender difference, we find a highly significant relation between smartphone addiction and depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance, smoking, and suicide.
CONCLUSION: our study adds to the existing literature regarding the magnitude of smartphone addiction and its relationship with different psychiatric disorders.

Language: en

Keywords

Humans; Universities; Students; suicide; Prevalence; university students; Surveys and Questionnaires; depression; anxiety; Egypt; Behavior, Addictive; smartphone addiction; Internet Addiction Disorder