Sleep quality, smart mobile phone addiction and depressive symptoms among undergraduate medical students of Maharajgunj medical campus
SUMMARY: A major proportion of the university student population experience depression, smart phone addiction and poor sleep quality. Problematic and excessive smart phone usage can cause many health problems including anxiety, depression and sleep disorder. The inter relationship between depressio...
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| Summary: | SUMMARY: A major proportion of the university student population experience depression, smart phone addiction and poor sleep quality. Problematic and excessive smart phone usage can cause many health problems including anxiety, depression and sleep disorder. The inter relationship between depression, poor sleep quality and problematic smart mobile phone addiction are scant. Understanding the factors by which depression in students relates to their poor sleep quality and problematic smart phone addiction will be beneficial to streamline efforts to reduce the burden of depression in students The primary objective of the study was to determine prevalence of depression, smart mobile phone addiction and poor sleep quality. This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study carried out among 212 undergraduate medical students studying at Maharajgunj Medical Campus, IOM, Kathmandu. Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Smart Mobile Phone Addiction Scale short version were used to assess the depression, sleep quality and smartphone addiction respectively. All the analyses were performed in STATA version 16.0. The study received ethical clearance from Institutional Review Committee, Institute of Medicine. Prevalence of depression, poor sleep quality and smart phone addiction were 27.8%, 38.2% and 44.8 % respectively. Currently studying years, academic achievement, current smoking status, current alcohol consumption, self-reported health problem, relationship status was found to be significantly associated with sleep quality <0.05. Independent variables like gender, study choice, smoking habit, alcohol consumption, self-reported health problem, use of sleep inducing medicine, physical violence and relationship were significantly associated with depressive symptoms. Sleep quality, smart mobile phone addiction and depression had a statistically significant linear relationship with each other in the study population (p<0.001). There was high prevalence of depression, sleep quality and smart phone addiction and were found associated to each other, intervention need to be made for addressing this problem. Key words: Depression, Sleep quality, Smart mobile phone addiction, Prevalence |
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