Impact of Smartphone Addiction on Sleep Quality of Medical Students in Jakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

Aims: to analyze the devastating effect of smartphone addiction on the sleep quality of medical students Methods: this is a simple electronic questionnaire based, cross sectional study, conducted among targeted medical students of a private university located in Jakarta, Indonesia. Sufficient information are delivered prior consent. The instrument being used was a questionnaire consist of demographic (age, gender, residence), the Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version (SAS-SV) and the Pittsburgh sleep quality Index (PSQI). Result and Discussion: To some extent, smartphone addiction now classified as mental health problem. From this one year study, we collected 165 respondents, which consist of 50 male  and 115 female (30.33% vs 69.77%), mean overall age 19.75, mean age for male group 19.4 years old and in the female group 19.71%. Majority of our respondent living boarding houses. The SAS-SV revealed that 47 male respondents (94%) strongly addict, and only 3 male respondents (6%) which was weakly addict, while on the female respondents, 100% (n=115) were strongly addict. The PSQI showed the dynamics of sleep quality among the level of smartphone addiction.                                                                                                Conclusion: The majority of participants were women with mean age 19.71 years old, and the male respondent mean age was slightly older, 19.84 years old. The majority of the respondents lived in rented accommodation, such as boarding houses or rented apartments. Data analysis revealed no significant relationship between smartphone addiction and sleep quality.