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Study to Assess the Prevalence of Mobile Phone Addiction Among Adolescents with Selected Demographic Variables Arti; Rahul Gusian; Anamika Gautam
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 4 (2021): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.37506/ijfmt.v15i4.16799

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Introduction: Adolescence is a time of moving from immaturity of childhood to maturity of adulthood.Technologies especially the mobile phone has considerably the new epidemic in century. It has become anessential part of the modern community and necessities in the people’s lifestyle over the past decade andgained unparallel fame because it facilitates communication between individual and shortening distance, agood investment of time.Method: It was a Descriptivestudy conducted amongst 100 consented students of age 13-18yr of Gurugramschools. Data was collected through a self – structured questionnaire to assess the prevalence of mobilephone addiction among adolescents.Result: Prevalence of smartphone addictions shows majority 65% adolescent are at high to developsmartphone addiction, 26% are at mild level of addiction and remaining 9% are at severe level of addiction.The chi square association of prevalence of mobile phone addiction among adolescent with selecteddemographic variables (0.003) was found to be statistically significant with standard only, whereas showedknow no statistically significant association with other demographic variablesConclusion: Study concludes that Prevalence of smartphone addictions shows majority 65% adolescent areat high risk to develop smartphone addiction, 26% are at mild level of addiction and remaining 9% are atsevere level of addiction.
Assessment of Anxiety during COVID-19 Pandemic among General Population of India Anamika Gautam; Poonam Ahlawat; Shikha Sharma Thapa
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 2 (2021): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Introduction -The coronavirus COVID-19 illness makes a very unpredictable future the main psychologicaleffect is elevated rates of anxiety, because of pandemic and the lockdown.Aim -The aimed of the study was to Assess the level of anxiety during COVID-19 among general populationin India.Methodology -A Snowball sampling technique was used to collect the samples from different state andunion territory of India. Total 829 participants respond and enrolled themselves in the study. Participants inthe study belong to 27 states or union territories of India and majority of them are from Delhi.Result-Most of the Participant in the study was female (54%), graduate (51%), age between 18-28 (60%)and Hindu (89.3%). Half of the participant were having minimal anxiety (57.1%) nearly one fourth ofthe participant were having Mild anxiety (28.5%) and least number of participants were having Moderateanxiety (11.0%) and Severe anxiety (3.5%).There was no significant association of Anxiety scores withSocio-demographic variable except place of stay, suffering from any health problem and During lockdownperiod time spent in watching news related to corona (COVID-19) on mobile, laptop, television etc.Conclusion-The study concluded the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Cause anxietyamong the people. Understanding the risk to yourself and people you care about can make an outbreak lessadverse effect on mental and physical health of the people