<![CDATA[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.]]>
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