The effect of mobile phone usage on sleep quality in adolescents

Abstract

To evaluate the effect of mobile phone usage on adolescents' sleep quality. This descriptive study took place from January 13-15, 2016 with 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students enrolled at Konya High School (n=380, 51.6% female, age 16.05±0.87). A questionnaire was used for data collection and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to measure the sleep quality of the students. Students received their first mobile phones at an average age of 12.29±1.41). They used their phones 3.03±2.18 hours per day on average, mostly for text messaging (89.5%). Average sleeping time was 7.34±1.22 hours when the next day was not a school day, and 9.11±1.79 hours when the next day was a school day. Sleep quality of the students decreased as the duration of mobile phone usage increased (p<0.01). Using the PSQI scale, it was determined that 20.5% of the students with good sleep quality and 79.5% of the students with poor sleep quality delayed their bedtime in favor of continued usage of their phone (p<0.05). Mobile phones should be removed from the bedrooms of adolescents. Parents should control their children's mobile phone usage

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