Smartphone ownership among adolescents is getting common in this decade especially in Malaysia;Adolescent are strongly devoted to their smartphone and this may lead to smartphone *** have reported that smartphone addi...
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Smartphone ownership among adolescents is getting common in this decade especially in Malaysia;Adolescent are strongly devoted to their smartphone and this may lead to smartphone *** have reported that smartphone addiction has become an emerging social and health problem especially among the youth in many countries however there is lack of study among adolescents in *** study aimed to examine the prevalence and factors associated with smartphone addiction among adolescents in *** was a cross-sectional study involving adolescents from 15 primary care clinics throughout the *** were assessed on their smartphone activities using the Malaysian short version of the Smartphone addiction scale(SAS-M-SV).Multiple logistic regression was used to determine the predictors of smartphone addiction among *** study was conducted among 921 adolescents with 49.6%male(n=457).The mean age of adolescents was 16.4±2.4 *** ethnicity distribution were 74.6%Malay,7.3%Chinese,4.7%Indian and 13.4%other *** prevalence of smartphone addiction was 37.1%(342/921);37.4%in male and 36.9%in *** on multiple logistic regression analysis,longer duration of smartphone use per week was associated with higher odds of smartphone addiction among adolescent(odd ratio=1.005%,95%confidence interval=1.000–1.009,p-value=0.039).Smartphone addiction is present in nearly four in ten adolescents in *** who spend longer duration in smartphone usage per week were associated with higher odds of having smartphone *** should be more alert and vigilant about this ***,parents should limit their children from spending too much of time with smartphone in order to prevent their children from getting smartphone addiction.
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