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Abstract
Background: Addiction to smartphone usage is a common worldwide problem among adults, which might negatively affect their wellbeing. This study investigated the prevalence and factors associated with smartphone addiction, depression and anxiety among medical students in Ain Shams University.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2022 using scales for determination of the parameters assessed. Responses to the Smartphone Addiction Scale - Short version (10-items) were rated on a 6-point Likert scale, and their percentage mean score (PMS) was commuted. Responses to General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) were rated and summated, Participants who were positive in both SAS and GHQ were asked to answer SCID-1, participants who met the criteria for having depression or generalized anxiety disorder in SCID-1 will have HDRS and TMAS respectively. Hamilton Depression scale (17-items) were summated (range 0–60); their mean score (MS) was commuted and categorized. Responses to Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale were summated and their mean score was commuted and categorized. Higher scores indicated higher levels of addiction, depression and anxiety. Factors associated with these outcomes were identified using descriptive and regression analyses. Statistical significance was set at P < 0.05.
Results: Accepted Results were 400/ 468,200 males and 200 females. The mean ± standard deviation of their age was 20.38± 2.06. There were 35.2 had no smart phone addiction while there were 64.8 had smart phone addiction among the participants. 36.5% had Evidence of distress and Severe psychological distress was detected in 14.2%. 27.5% of high-risk group for smartphone addiction development had major depressive disorder out of them 42.9% had Mild depression, 26.2% had Moderate depression and 29.2% had Severe depression. 34.8% of high-risk group for smartphone addiction development had generalized anxiety disorder and of them 51.9% had Mild anxiety symptoms, 28.8% had Moderate anxiety symptoms and 19.2% had Severe anxiety symptoms. A positive moderate correlation was found between smartphone addiction and severity of depression and anxiety, high statistical significance was found between severity of smartphone addiction (SAS results) and severity of depression and anxiety (HDRS and TMAS results)
Conclusions: High statistical significance was found between smartphone addiction development (SAS results) and psychological stress (GHQ results) in male and female participants. (p value in both =0.001). Positive significance and moderate positive correlation were found between smartphone addiction (SAS results) and severity of depression (HDRS results) (p value is less than 0.001) and severity of anxiety (TMAS results) (p value=0.004). smartphone addiction is a predictor for severity of depression and anxiety. Reasonable usage of smart phones is advised, especially among young adults and students who could be at higher risk of depression.