Nursing Applied Journal
Vol. 3 No. 4 (2025): October : Nursing Applied Journal

Description of the Emotional Mental Health of Elementary School Children Who use Smartphones at Public Elementary School 064979 Medan

Rotua Elvina Pakpahan (Unknown)
Friska Sembiring (Unknown)
Winda Triwayuli Sinaga (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
02 Oct 2025

Abstract

Introduction: Elementary school children play a very important role in the development stages of children in their middle and final stages of childhood. Children's emotional mental health can also influence their own future, and have a big impact on family, friends, teachers and society, because Parents need to supervise their children when using smartphones. The duration of smartphone use for children aged 3-S years is 1 hour per day and for children aged 6-18 years is 2 hours per day. Method:The design of this research is a quantitative descriptive design using a cross sectional approach. The samples for this research are 71 students using a total sampling technique. The measuring tool for this research used the SDQ (Strength & Difficulties Questionnaire) questionnaire. There are 5 categories or aspects of behavior that are measured to detect emotional mental health, namely emotional problems, behavioral problems, hyperactivity, peer problems, and prosocial, each category has 3 divisions, Normal Borderline, Abnormal. Result:The research results obtain are Normal 4 (5.6%), Borderline 62 (87.4%). Abnormal are 5 (7.0%). Conclusion:It is hoped that this research will provide input for elementary school children so that they can adapt to their environment. Parents also play a very important role for children so that children do not become addicted to smartphones.  

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Journal Info

Abbrev

NAJ

Publisher

Subject

Health Professions Nursing Public Health

Description

The field of study in this journal includes the Nursing Applied Journal Research. NAJ : Nursing Applied Journal accepts articles in English and ...