Nomophobia: an emerging issue in medical institutions?

Abstract

Nomophobia is found to be prevalent in students of 1st year MBBS.

Akıllı telefon kullanımının karanlık tarafı (Nomofobi): Endişelenmemize gerek var mı?

“…The present study has examined the prevalence of nomophobia levels among prospective physicians, and found that students who participated in the study had moderate nomophobia, that is to say, they displayed nomophobic behaviors, concurring with many studies in literature that have also reported the prevalence of nomophobia among college students (14,30,35,38,39). The study found that the dimensions of "Not being able to communicate" and "Not being able to access information" were particularly important for the participants, and similar findings were also reported by Adnan and Gezgin (30).…”

Nomophobia: An Individual’s Growing Fear of Being without a Smartphone—A Systematic Literature Review

“…The research analyzed is eminently exploratory, descriptive, nonexperimental, correlational, and cross-sectional, using the questionnaire as a single research collection instrument [1,2,4,13,16,[18][19][20]23,25,26,[29][30][31][32][33]35,37,39,58,[61][62][63][64], presenting a quantitative methodological design. Others, however, extend this information with mixed methodological design, including qualitative techniques, such as interviews or discussion groups [5,20,24,65].…”

“…Most research aims to analyze the prevalence of nomophobia in different groups, whether students, clinic patients, or random people [1,18,19,23,29,30,32,33,36,37]. At the same time, some of them ask if there is any correlation between presenting nomophobia and other alterations of a psychic [5,13,25,26,35,[58][59][60] or physical [61] nature, as well as alterations in learning and attention [31,54], in academic performance [2], coping styles [4], or other psychosocial problems arising in the digital and smartphone era [11,15].…”

“…Most research has nomophobia as the main and only study variable [1,4,7,14,[17][18][19][22][23][24]27,28,30,31,34,65]. However, other researchers have been interested in examining the relationship between nomophobia and physical factors, such as age [29,33,60], context [29], presence of Carpal tunnel syndrome or median nerve in the wrist [61], and gender [32,33,35,39,58].…”

“…Nomophobia is seen as a type of contemporary phobia that emerged in the digital age [14][15][16], which is expanding after the integration of the smartphone into society [17]. This term has its origin in England and is the result of the conjunction "non-mobile" combined with "phobia", that is, fear, anxiety, and discomfort of not having a mobile device at a certain moment or not having access to a device when required [18][19][20][21]. In other words, nomophobia is the fear of feeling disconnected from the digital world [22].…”