DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2020.v06i09.001

Pages: 192-197

Communication is essential in every area of life. The cellular telephone system is a way of providing portable telephone services. Cell phones are a vast improvement over the telecommunications technology of the past century, and are deadly became a part of modern life. Cell phones have become a necessity for many people throughout the world but nothing is without some detrimental effects. Such detrimental effects of cell phones on the youth may lead health risks such as mental health and physical health problems; hence a study was conducted to assess the detrimental effects of cell phones and its awareness among adolescents. A structured interview schedule was used to determine the detrimental effects of cell phones and its awareness among adolescents. Non Experimental uni-variant descriptive design is used on 100 adolescents from Urban Community of Sikar City. The technique used in the study is Non probability convenient sampling technique and it shows that out of 100 about half of the adolescent (48%) were averagely aware, around 46% were poor awareness, and only 6% were fully aware about the detrimental effects of cell phones.