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Correlation between smartphone overuse and quality of sleep on university students and medical graduate students

Authors

Young Joon
Ahn

Theme

8II Mobile learning

INSTITUTION

Chosun University, School of medicine, Department of Medical education
Gwangju, South Korea

Background

The smartphones are available in world wide & influence quality of life & educational environment. We investigated the relationship between the smartphone dependency & their quality of sleep.

Summary of Work

A questionnaire survey conducted of 239 students at a university by random selection. This survey consisted of basic questions, PSQI and Self-rated smartphone addiction scale for adults. We used the T-test, one way ANOVA & the linear regression analysis.

Conclusion

There is a correlation between smartphone dependency & the quality of sleep & the more severe the dependency, the more likely that the quality of sleep might fall.

Summary of Results

1. General Demographics

2. Step of smartphone addiction

3. The scores of sleep quality according to smartphone addiction

P value =0.009

Normal Potential High risk

4. Risk factors influenced to sleep quality

Model 1: dependent variables- step of addiction

Model 2: dependent variables- PSQI

→ University students, nonsmokers & stressful persons significantly lower at the quality of sleep than graduated students, smokers & less stressful students.