Open AccessA study on smartphone addiction and its effects on sleep quality among nursing students in a municipality town of West Bengal
Author(s) -
Trishan Ghosh,
Deblina Sarkar,
Kingsuk Sarkar,
Chanchal Kumar Dalai,
Arnab Ghosal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1657_20
Subject(s) - pittsburgh sleep quality index , smartphone addiction , medicine , addiction , observational study , gadget , west bengal , quality (philosophy) , cross sectional study , sleep quality , scale (ratio) , depression (economics) , nursing , psychiatry , insomnia , philosophy , physics , macroeconomics , epistemology , pathology , algorithm , quantum mechanics , socioeconomics , sociology , computer science , economics
Smartphones are now an important gadget for us, but the many are getting addicted to it. Researchers showed that smartphone addiction and late-night usage affects sleep quality. Indian nurses are already facing a heavy burden of depression and present position of nurses is quite insecure. Very few studies were performed over nursing students and that leads to the selection of this topic for my research.