DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i04.050

Pages: 1613-1617

Mobile phone provided a variety of functions that touch upon every aspect of social life.Nomophobia is the collection of symptoms or behavior related to the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. The aim of our study was to explore the status of nomophobia among medical students. By simple random sampling method 200 MBBS students (115 males and 85 females) were included for study. A pre-designed and pre tested questionnaire (6, 7) was used to study mobile phone dependence. We have categorized nomophobia result according to questionnaire positivity in three ranges mild (5-10), moderate (11-16) and severe (16-20) and students which scored less than 5 were said not to be nomophobic. In overall group of 200 students 47 (23.30%) were found mild nomophobic, 111 (55.5%) were moderate and 42 (21%) were found severe nomophobic. We also concluded that this disorder is equally prevalent among the study group irrespective of gender.