PMID- 36506446
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20221222
IS  - 1664-0640 (Print)
IS  - 1664-0640 (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-0640 (Linking)
VI  - 13
DP  - 2022
TI  - Excessive smartphone use and its correlations with social anxiety and quality of 
      life among medical students in a public university in Malaysia: A cross-sectional 
      study.
PG  - 956168
LID - 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.956168 [doi]
LID - 956168
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Smartphone usage has significantly increased in the last decade 
      among young adults has significantly increased in the last decade. While its 
      benefits are undeniable, its negative implications are increasingly emerging. 
      Studies are needed to investigate the effects of excessive smartphone use on a 
      young person's life. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of excessive 
      smartphone use among medical students and its relations with social anxiety, 
      self-esteem, and quality of life. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted 
      among medical students from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in UKM Medical 
      Center. A total of 273 students have consented to participate and completed 
      self-reported questionnaires encompassing sociodemographic information, the Short 
      Version Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS-SV), the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale 
      (SIAS), the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) and the 
      Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (RSES). Sociodemographic data, SIAS score, 
      WHOQOL-BREF score and the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale score were treated as 
      independent variables. Smartphone addiction Scale score was treated as the 
      dependent variable. Bivariate analysis was used to explore the relationship 
      between independent and dependent variables using the Fisher exact test, Pearson 
      Chi-Square and Pearson correlation coefficient. Multiple linear regression 
      analysis was used to analyze the variables with a p-value of < 0.05 from the 
      Pearson correlation coefficient test. RESULTS: The percentage of excessive 
      smarphone use among UKM medical students is 48%. The bivariate analysis showed 
      that excessive smartphone use has a small but significant positive correlation 
      with social anxiety (r = 0.173, p = 0.004) and negative correlations with 
      physical health (r = -0.133, p = 0.028), psychological wellbeing (r =-0.135, p = 
      0.026), social relationships (r = -0.232, p = 0.001), environment (r = -0.260, p 
      = 0.001) and self-esteem (r = -0.128, p = 0.035). In the multiple regression 
      analysis, a better environment predicted a reduced risk for smartphone addiction 
      (beta = -0.233, p = 0.013). CONCLUSION: Almost half of the students were found to 
      have smartphone overdependence. Excessive smartphone use has shown a significant 
      relationship with an increased risk for social anxiety, reduction in self-esteem, 
      and quality of life among medical students. A closer look into the possible 
      intervention is needed in the future to curb the negative effects arising from 
      excessive smartphone use.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 Mohd Salleh Sahimi, Norzan, Nik Jaafar, Sharip, Ashraf, 
      Shanmugam, Bistamam, Mohammad Arrif, Kumar and Midin.
FAU - Mohd Salleh Sahimi, Hajar
AU  - Mohd Salleh Sahimi H
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 
      Cheras, Malaysia.
FAU - Norzan, Mohd Hafiz
AU  - Norzan MH
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
FAU - Nik Jaafar, Nik Ruzyanei
AU  - Nik Jaafar NR
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 
      Cheras, Malaysia.
FAU - Sharip, Shalisah
AU  - Sharip S
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 
      Cheras, Malaysia.
FAU - Ashraf, Ammar
AU  - Ashraf A
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 
      Cheras, Malaysia.
FAU - Shanmugam, Kamaleshini
AU  - Shanmugam K
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 
      Cheras, Malaysia.
FAU - Bistamam, Nur Shahirah
AU  - Bistamam NS
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 
      Cheras, Malaysia.
FAU - Mohammad Arrif, Najat Emir
AU  - Mohammad Arrif NE
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 
      Cheras, Malaysia.
FAU - Kumar, Saathish
AU  - Kumar S
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 
      Cheras, Malaysia.
FAU - Midin, Marhani
AU  - Midin M
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 
      Cheras, Malaysia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221124
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Psychiatry
JT  - Frontiers in psychiatry
JID - 101545006
PMC - PMC9729953
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - medical student
OT  - quality of life
OT  - self esteem
OT  - smartphone dependence
OT  - social phobia
COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any 
      commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential 
      conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2022/12/13 06:00
MHDA- 2022/12/13 06:01
PMCR- 2022/11/24
CRDT- 2022/12/12 11:15
PHST- 2022/05/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/11/11 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/12/12 11:15 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/12/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/12/13 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/11/24 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.956168 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Psychiatry. 2022 Nov 24;13:956168. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.956168. 
      eCollection 2022.