Internet addiction increases poor sleep quality among high school students
Abstract
Objective: Good sleep quality is important for human health. Internet addiction can disrupt sleep quality. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the use of online communication tools, internet addiction and poor sleep quality. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Mersin in 2016. The universe of the research consisted of 55043 high school students. Based on minimum sampling, it was planned to include 1110 people in the study, but in actuality, 1061 people participated. Descriptive statistics, chi-square, t test, Mann Whitney U, Binary Logistic Regression analysis and Classification and Regression Tree analysis were employed during the data processing. Results: A total of 1061 students, of which 531 (50.0%) were females, participated in the research, with an average age of 16.6±1.2 years. Out of all the participants, 65.6% had personal computers, 87.0% had personal mobile phones and 90.4% of these participants had access to the Internet via their mobile phones. Among all, 58.6% were found to be suffering from poor sleep quality. Studied factors like internet addiction (OR=2.31), being female (OR=1.95) and having conflict with parents due to excessive internet use (OR=1.95) were found to be the contributing factors which diminished sleep quality. Furthermore, it has been shown in the classification and regression tree analyses that internet addiction is the most significant determinant of poor sleep quality. Conclusion: The co-occurrence of prevalent poor sleep quality and internet addiction among the participants of the study may be a strong evidence of the link between internet addiction and poor sleep quality.
Keywords:
Internet, addiction, sleep,
adolescence
Keywords
References
- Doç.Dr. İskender Gün, Erciyes Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Halk Sağlığı AD, iskendergun@gmail.com
Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Health Care Administration
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Fazıl Koças
This is me
0000-0002-5241-0218
Türkiye
Tayyar Şaşmaz
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0000-0002-3923-570X
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 24, 2018
Submission Date
March 19, 2018
Acceptance Date
July 25, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 16 Number: 3
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