Nomofobia entre discentes de medicina e sua associação com depressão, ansiedade, estresse e rendimento acadêmico

Abstract

Introduction: As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, the adoption of technology remains one of the defining factors of human progress. Nomophobia (NO MObile PHOne PhoBIA) represents a mental condition caused by the fear of being detached from mobile phone connectivity. Such condition is directly associated with depression, anxiety, and stress. Moreover, nomophobia can lead to structural brain damage. Objective: The present study aims to assess the effect of nomophobia on medical students at a private institution and its association with depression, anxiety, stress and academic performance. Method: This is a cross-sectional observational study carried out in medical students at Centro Universitário Christus. Nomophobia was measured using the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q). The NMP-Q has 20 questions, which are asked on a 7-point Likert scale. This scale has been validated for the Brazilian Portuguese language. Depression, anxiety and stress were measured by the DASS-21, a simplified version of the DASS instrument. The DASS-21 questionnaire was also validated for the Brazilian Portuguese language. Academic performance was measured through API, the product of a complex mathematical operation that results in the student’s average grade in the semester and functions as a reference index for pedagogical follow-up in the assessed institution. In addition, the device use habits were assessed. Descriptive results were presented, and bivariate analyses of association and correlation were performed. This study was approved by the research ethics committee. Result: A sample of 292 students was assessed. Virtually all students (99.7%) had some degree of nomophobia, and 64.5% had a moderate or severe level of nomophobia. More than 50% of the students had higher than mild degrees of stress, and 19.5% and 11.2% of the students had severe or very severe levels of anxiety and depression, respectively. When analyzing the correlation of NMP-Q with DASS-21 scores, it was observed that increases in NMP-Q lead to increases in the overall DASS score (p < 0.001), and that worse results in DASS-21 are associated with worse API. Conclusion: Our study suggests that nomophobia is likely to increase anxiety, stress and depression and, as a result, leads to a decrease in academic performance.

A Marginalização De Jovens Hiv Positivos E Suas Implicações Sociais Frente Ao Preconceito No Brasil

“…Ademais, acerca de outras correlações com a nomofobia. De acordo com Kubrusly, et al (2021) 7 , a Nomofobia foi correlacionada com depressão e ansiedade na amostra estudada. Bano, et al (2021) 3 encontrou uma correlação estatisticamente significativa entre nomofobia, ansiedade, porém, contrariando os achados acima, não encontrou correspondência entre nomofobia e depressão.…”

Percepção dos estudantes de Medicina sobre as habilidades de autogestão adquiridas durante a vigência do ensino remoto

“…Estratégias como o uso de um planner e a restrição do uso de "celular" também foram destacadas como importantes na gestão do tempo, justificando as fortes relações entre os termos "celular-uso" e "uso-planner" (e_41; e_28; e_14; e_07; e_43). Embora seja uma ferramenta que auxilia a organização da rotina por permitir o acesso aos aplicativos de gestão do tempo, entre outros, o uso de smartphones ou celulares pode se tornar um problema quando em excesso, a exemplo da nomofobia (no-mobile-phone-phobia), descrita como uma condição causada pelo desconforto decorrente da impossibilidade de comunicação por meios virtuais, transtorno que pode interferir no cotidiano das pessoas, no seu comportamento e nos hábitos, e no ambiente acadêmico, reduzindo o seu rendimento 26,27 .…”

O impacto do uso do smartphone e das redes sociais na atenção, memória e ansiedade de estudantes universitários: revisão integrativa

“…Smartphone/celular com a ansiedadeKubrusly et al (2021) desenvolveram um estudo observacional e transversal com 292 estudantes do curso de Medicina de uma universidade particular no Brasil chamada Centro Universitário Christus (Unichristus). Os instrumentos utilizados para esse estudo foram dois questionários, sendo então o Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q) para medir a Nomofobia e o Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale 21 (DASS-21) para medir a ansiedade.…”