The relationship between the nomophobic levels of higher education students in Ghana and academic achievement.

There is an upsurge in the use of mobile phones among higher education students in Ghana, which may result in the nomophobia prevalence with the students. Therefore, the need to assess the influence of nomophobia within the student population in Ghana. This descriptive cross-sectional study investig...

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Autores principales:	Harry Barton Essel, Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Akosua Tachie-Menson
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f9da06e2357d481a8310405f5a7fa98d2021-12-02T20:10:36ZThe relationship between the nomophobic levels of higher education students in Ghana and academic achievement.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0252880https://doaj.org/article/f9da06e2357d481a8310405f5a7fa98d2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252880https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203There is an upsurge in the use of mobile phones among higher education students in Ghana, which may result in the nomophobia prevalence with the students. Therefore, the need to assess the influence of nomophobia within the student population in Ghana. This descriptive cross-sectional study investigated the prevalence of nomophobia and the sociodemographic variables, and the association with academic achievement of the understudied population. A self-reporting nomophobia questionnaire, composed of 20 dimensions, was answered by 670 university students to measure the nomophobia prevalence. Raw data were estimated using descriptive statistics, and one-way ANOVA and Independent T-test. While the findings showed diverse grades of nomophobia, statistical significance between academic achievement and the level of nomophobia was observed. This study concludes that there is a high nomophobia prevalence among university students in Ghana as the use of smartphones increases. However, follow-up studies should be conducted in Ghanaian universities to monitor nomophobia and its associates in order to reduce the adverse effects of habitual use of smartphones.Harry Barton EsselDimitrios VlachopoulosAkosua Tachie-MensonPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0252880 (2021)
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description	There is an upsurge in the use of mobile phones among higher education students in Ghana, which may result in the nomophobia prevalence with the students. Therefore, the need to assess the influence of nomophobia within the student population in Ghana. This descriptive cross-sectional study investigated the prevalence of nomophobia and the sociodemographic variables, and the association with academic achievement of the understudied population. A self-reporting nomophobia questionnaire, composed of 20 dimensions, was answered by 670 university students to measure the nomophobia prevalence. Raw data were estimated using descriptive statistics, and one-way ANOVA and Independent T-test. While the findings showed diverse grades of nomophobia, statistical significance between academic achievement and the level of nomophobia was observed. This study concludes that there is a high nomophobia prevalence among university students in Ghana as the use of smartphones increases. However, follow-up studies should be conducted in Ghanaian universities to monitor nomophobia and its associates in order to reduce the adverse effects of habitual use of smartphones.
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The relationship between the nomophobic levels of higher education students in Ghana and academic achievement.

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