Time and Nature of Mobile Phone Usage Medicine Students

Abstract

Background: Various researches are carried out on the time and nature of cell phone use in university students, but scarce in the field of medice in the century technology. Objetive: To establish the time and nature of the use of mobile phone in fourth year A student of medicine at the Escuela Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras en el Valle de Sula (EUCS/UNAH-VS) in the first semestre of 2017. Patients and Methods: Exploratory descriptive study. Population: 78, sample by consent of 38 student, instrumet it was done through the App Usage® program that generated the results, the data of frequencies, percentages and measures of central tendency in Excel® were evaluated. Results: The data showed that the average time of student use of mobile was 5 hours with 9 minutes a day (21.5%). The use focused on reactive mobile application (distractor) with 4 hours 47 minu- tes (93%) and in proactive mobile applications only 22 minutes (7%). Conclusions: The data of this research indicate that the pattern of use of mobile phone is of 21.5% in a day, and the nature of the use of cell phone by fourth year medical student a of the EUCS/UNAH-VS is of a character reactive or its like distractor.

Keywords

Medical students, Cell phone, Mobile application