The Relationship between Smartphone Addiction and Functional Neck Disability among University Students during COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors : Amr ABDELAZİEM, Ibrahim DEWİR, Mosab ALOTİBİ, Hamzh MORSHED, Ziyad ALKHAMMASH, Muqren ALSHAHRANİ

Pages : 562-570

Doi:10.33808/clinexphealthsci.1116402

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Publication Date : 2023-09-11

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Objective: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of smartphones addiction, and to investigate the relationship between smartphones addiction and functional neck disability among the students of Taif University during a Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: A 1060 students from Taif University participated in this study. The smartphones addiction was evaluated by using the short version of the smartphone’s addiction scale insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(SAS-SV); and functional neck disability was measured by the neck disability index insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(NDI);. Results: About 83 % of the students reported smartphones addiction, 50% were suffering from mild neck disability, and 84% used their smartphones for more than 4 hours/day. Female students represented one and half times more than male to develop a smartphones addiction insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p< 0.05);. There was a significant association between smartphones addition and neck disability insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p< 0.05);. Moreover, female students had a functional neck disability significantly greater than male students insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p= 0.001);. Students with smartphones addiction represented three times more than students without addiction to develop functional neck disability insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p= 0.001);, and female students represented two times more than male students to develop functional neck disability insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p= 0.001);. Conclusion: During a COVID-19 pandemic, more than four-fifth of the students showed smartphones addiction. The female students are more predictive to smartphones addiction than male. The smartphones addiction and female students were found to be the predictors for functional neck disability.
Keywords : Functional disability, neck pain, smartphone addiction, students