Impact of Mobile Phone (Smart Phone) on Secondary Level Students at Kotalipara Upazila, Gopalganj, Bangladesh

Abstract

Impact of mobile phone especially smart phone on secondary level students at Kotalipara Upazila of Gopalganj district was studied at Kotalipara, Gopalganj, from Jnuary 2023 to June 2023. This research was conducted to find out the existing status of using smart phones in educational and non-educational purpose by secondary level students. This study also highlighted the various adverse aspects of health damage due to excessive use of mobile phone. About 80 students were selected from 10 (Ten) secondary educational institutions or school of Kotalipara, Gopaljonj. Approximately 53.75% male and 45.00% female students were going to the school at secondary level. The student of class nine and class eight was constitute almost 73.75 percent of total smart phone user and most of the students (about 67.50%) got mobile phone from his/her father. About 77.50% students used smart phone two hours/ less than two hours. Most of the students were addicted to using YouTube (40.00%) followed by the facebook (35.00%). The students were using the mobile phone for various purpose such as study (38.75%), listening music (15.0%), watching video (13.75%), playing game (17.50%) and others (15.0%) purpose. In case of academic studies most of the students (about 47.50%) used mobile phone for search the complex answer. Most of the secondary level students were suffered from lack of sleep (45.0%), eye problem (20.0%), headache (17.50%) and neck pain (11.25%). So we should ensure the rational use of mobile phone to get update education and ICT based knowledge. On the contrary, the students cannot save them from the bad effect of mobile phone.