The Association of Smartphone Usage with Sleep Disturbances among Medical Students

Abstract

Background Smartphones have become an important and vital instrument that all medical students utilize, but the usage of such devices has been found to be connected to sleep disturbances. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and the relationship between smartphone addiction and poor sleep quality among medical students.

Keywords

• medical students
• sleep
• smartphones
• Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
• smartphone addiction scale short version