Smartphone Addiction and its Associated Factors Among Freshmen Medical Students in China: A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Background With the widespread smartphone use worldwide, this has brought about addiction and smartphone addiction recognized as an emerging epidemic. The study aims to investigate the prevalence of smartphone addiction among freshmen medical students and explore its association with personal factors, mental health and professional identity.Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted in October 10th to November 10th, 2020 and included 2182 first-year college students at Wannan Medical College, China.The Smartphone Addiction Test, Professional identity, 12-item General Health Questionnaire were used in this cross-sectional survey. Pearson correlation analysis was performed to examine the correlations between smartphone addiction with mental health and professional identity. Binary logistic regression analysis was conducted to assess examine the factors influencing smartphone addiction.Results Of the 2182 students, 866(39.7%) were identified as smartphone addiction. The logistic regression analysis shows that four factors (professional identity scale,poor mental health,whether or not smartphone use before sleep, and perceived study pressure) had a significantly associated with smartphone addiction.Conclusions This cross-sectional study showed that smartphone addiction was common among the chinese freshmen medical students. smartphone addiction was common among the freshmen medical students surveyed.The findings suggest that the promotion program aimed at enhancing the mental health and professional identity among freshmen medical students are beneficial to reducing their smartphone addiction.

Factors influencing death attitudes of medical students: a scoping review

“…Medical students who held religious beliefs exhibited higher scores on the natural acceptance dimension (14,22). Conversely, other studies found that religion did not have a significant impact on death attitudes among medical students (10,11,34).…”

“…Sixteen studies have been conducted to assess the influence of religion on medical students' death attitudes (10,11,14,17,19,21,22,25,27,28,34,37,39,41,44). As shown in Table 2, three studies observed a statistically significant distinction between scores of the approach acceptance dimension with and without religion (21,25,28).…”

“…Seven studies looked at the impact of students' origin on their attitudes toward death (10,17,21,23,32,34,41). Some studies from China have focused on differences in death attitudes among medical students from different origins, finding that urban medical students had a relatively more positive view of death than those from rural areas (10,17,21,32,34,41). Additionally, Niu et al (34) found that medical students from rural areas exhibited higher scores on the fear of death dimension, which was similar to another study (21).…”

“…Comprehensive education has been shown to be more likely to foster reasonably positive views toward death among medical students (12,32). Only one study examined the effects of character (10) and race (36).…”

“…As shown in Table 3, 12 studies explored the relationship between funeral experiences and the death attitudes of medical students (10-12, 14, 15, 21, 22, 25, 28, 34, 39, 44). Six studies found that these experiences did not significantly affect attitudes toward death (10,12,25,28,34). Two studies revealed that students who participated in funeral ceremonies exhibited more positive attitudes toward death (21,44).…”