Year: 2024 | Month: March | Volume: 14 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 26-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20240305
Prevalence of Nomophobia Amongst Physiotherapy Students in Ahmedabad City
Dr. Saloni Desai1, Dr. Mihirdev Jhala2
1First Year MPT (Neuroscience) student, 2Principal, JG College Of Physiotherapy, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Corresponding Author: Dr. Saloni Desai
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION: Nomophobia is the fear of being unable to use ones mobile or being unreachable and refers to the feeling of discomfort or anxiety experienced by individuals. This study is aimed to find the prevalence of nomophobia amongst physiotherapy students.
Smartphone addiction is one of the most common issue amongst students as they can have easy access to internet for their daily use which in turn leads to its increasing demands. As the cost of service decreases the dependency of mobile phones to access educational content instead of books has also increased. A 2019 study showed the impact of nomophobia amongst physiotherapy students. This paper briefly describes the research carried out especially regarding the prevalence of nomophobia amongst in physiotherapy students in Ahmedabad city.
METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional-questionnaire based study was conducted among physiotherapy students. A total of 210 students completed this survey and were included in the analysis. The rate of nomophobia was measured using nomophobia questionnaire (NMP-Q). The study group consisted of 210 students, ages 18-25 years including both males and females. Each participant was asked to complete the survey through a google form by rating in the form of a 7 point likert scale. Ethical clearance was taken.
RESULT: The data is examined using microsoft excel 2016 version.The overall distribution of NMP-Q scores was absent for 3%, mild nomophobia for 18%, moderate nomophobia for 47% and severe nomophobia for 32%.
CONCLUSION: Hence from this study we concluded that there is moderate to severe prevalence of nomophobia amongst physiotherapy students.
Key words: Nomophobia, Physiotherapy students