Investigating the Use of Smartphones for Learning Purposes by Australian Dental Students

Rung, Andrea; Warnke, Frauke; Mattheos, Nikos

doi:10.2196/mhealth.3120

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“…Present study findings showed that 68% of dental and 70.45% of medical doctors are using health care apps on their smart phone. These results are in accordance with the previous studies 21,22 . This suggests that it is a global trend and practice for health care professionals to own a smart device and use medical apps to support their study and clinical sessions.…”

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confidence: 94%

Health Care Apps- will they be a Facelift for Today's Medical/Dental Practice?

Jasti¹,

Pratap²,

Padma.T³

et al. 2015

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Background: With the recent advent of smart phones, usage of medical apps is on rise. Smart phones are powerful devices that combine the conventional functions of a mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities enabling users to access software applications commonly termed as ''apps''. Health care applications (apps) that are downloadable on to smart phones are increasingly becoming popular among clinicians. Aim:The aim of the present study was to assess the usage of health care apps among Medical and Dental doctors.Methodology: A descriptive cross sectional questionnaire based study was conducted on medical and dental doctors of Mamata hospitals, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh. A pretested, self administered questionnaire was used and it consists of questions regarding demographic data followed by usage of health care apps. Descriptive statistics were computed to demonstrate the frequency of responses and the comparisons were made using chi-square test. A p-value less than or equal to 0.05 was considered to be significant.Results: A total of eighty doctors (48 Medical and 32 dental) completed the questionnaire. More males (n 0 63) than females (n 017) participated in the study. Participants had a mean age of 32.5 years. It was found that 68% of dental doctors and 70.45% of medical doctors are using health care apps on their smart phone. Most of the participants (58.8% of dental and 77.4% medical doctors) use the health care apps for knowledge purposes, while no dental doctors used the apps for diagnosis or treatment purposes. The majority of the dental doctors (41.17%) are using these apps for patient education purpose when compared to the medical doctors (3.22%). Conclusion:There is a high usage rate of health care apps among both medical and dental doctors, with medical doctors using the apps for informational purposes, whereas dental doctors used the apps for patient education.

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confidence: 94%

Health Care Apps- will they be a Facelift for Today's Medical/Dental Practice?

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“…Many studies such as [3,4,5,6,7] have been conducted on assessing the use and effects of smartphones especially for learning purposes. For example, reference [3] and [4] reported on the nature of students' use of smartphones, as well as their attitudes towards utilizing smartphones for educational use, while [5,6,7] reported that smartphones have negatively effects on a learning process.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, reference [3] and [4] reported on the nature of students' use of smartphones, as well as their attitudes towards utilizing smartphones for educational use, while [5,6,7] reported that smartphones have negatively effects on a learning process.…”

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The Use and Effects of Smartphones in Higher Education

Alfawareh

Jusoh

2017

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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Abstract-The purpose of this study is to investigate the use and effects of smartphones on academic staffs at a university level, especially in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We conducted a survey study using questionnaires. The questionnaires were randomly distributed to 66 academic staffs who own a smartphone at the Northern Border University. This study discovers the smartphone had replaced a computer, and an email application was mostly used. The academic staffs also had utilized smartphone as a means for knowledge sharing. Social media applications were greatly used in teaching and learning. Despite the benefits of smartphone use, academic staffs had been negatively affected. This study also reveals that having a smartphone diverted academic staffs' focus at work, created "check habits", and an artificial relationship; more than 90% of the respondents admitted that they put their smartphone besides their bed before sleep, and 61.41% of them claimed that they had the feelings of incompleteness whenever smartphones were not with them.

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“…These technologies were not included everywhere in the formal curriculum, but some authors underline the opportunity to design adequate educational methods, activities and material (Oulasvirta et al, 2012;Rung et al, 2014).…”

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Anxiety with and Without New Technology Among Romanian High School Students

Cocoradă

2017

Eur. j. interdiscip. stud.

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Nowadays, the new technology defines the classroom and students' and teachers' life. Sometimes the attitude towards technology use is marked by negative dysfunctional emotion, anxiety, fear, avoidance or dependence. This paper focuses both on the anxiety with the new technology and on the anxiety without technology. Our research aims to examine the attitudes and behaviours of Romanian high school students regarding trendy technologies, such as computers, internet and smartphones, including the access to social networking applications. The following tools were used: CARS (Heinssen, Glass, & Knight, 1987), IAS (Nickel and Pinto, 1986), four scales from MTUAS (Rosen, Whaling, Carrier, Cheever, and Rokkum, 2013), the Use of Smartphones for Learning Purposes Scale-USLS and a socio-demographic questionnaire. There were 517 participants distributed in two studies. The findings showed some differences concerning gender, age, specialization and academic performance, as well as an evolution of participants from the anxiety towards the computer (highest with females) to the anxiety without technology (similar for females and males). School performance is negatively associated with computer anxiety and Facebook activities. The study is important in the Romanian context, where computers, internet and smartphone penetration is more pronounced with younger people. Pedagogical issues of the research are also discussed, anxiety having a double function, as an endogenous and exogenous factor with respect to one's academic and professional development.

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Investigating the Use of Smartphones for Learning Purposes by Australian Dental Students

Cited by 80 publications

References 28 publications

Health Care Apps- will they be a Facelift for Today's Medical/Dental Practice?

Health Care Apps- will they be a Facelift for Today's Medical/Dental Practice?

The Use and Effects of Smartphones in Higher Education

Anxiety with and Without New Technology Among Romanian High School Students

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