Avicenna Journal of Neuro Psycho Physiology، جلد ۳، شماره ۴، صفحات ۱۰۱-۱۰۵

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عنوان انگلیسی Association Between Cellphone Overuse and Depression Among Medical College Students in Hamadan, West of Iran
چکیده انگلیسی مقاله Background: Its contact the main reason for the use of mobile phones is especially students living in dormitories. As well as students to communicate in cyber space than in real space of communication are interested, this can threaten their mental health. Objectives: The current study aimed at exploring the amount of mobile phone overuse and determining the association between mobile phone overuse and depression among medical college students in Hamadan, West of Iran. Methods: The current cross sectional study was conducted through the stratified sampling method on 300 students residing in dormitories of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences in 2016. The subjects completed a self-administered questionnaire including demographic characteristics, the cellphone overuse scale (COS), and the Beck depression inventory. Data were analyzed with SPSS version 16 using the linear regression analysis, independent t test, and one-way ANOVA. Results: The results showed that 45% of the students use their mobile phone for 3 to 6 hours per day; 32% had excessive use of cellphone. Similarly, 22% of participants had minor depression and 20.7% of the students had moderate depression. Also, the results showed that cellphone overuse significantly promoted depression (ß = 0.351, P < 0.001). Conclusions: According to the obtained results, excessive users of cellphones were more depressed. It seems that living in student dormitories provides better conditions for mental disorders. Therefore, it seems necessary to consider the psychological problems of dormitory students.
کلیدواژه‌های انگلیسی مقاله Cellphones, Depression, Students, Medical

نویسندگان مقاله | Majid Barati
PhD, Assistant Professor, Research Center for Behavioral Disorders and Substances Abuse and Department of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran


| Ghatran Moloudi
BSc, Student Research Committee, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran


| Faezeh Karimi
BSc, Student Research Committee, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran


| Maryam Afshari
MSc, Student Research Committee, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran


| Yones Mohammadi
PhD, Assistant Professor, Modeling of Non communicable Diseases Research Center and Department of Epidemiology, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran


| Tahereh Etesamifard
MSc, Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran



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