European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

REVIEW ON INTERNET AND SMARTPHONES ADDICTION: SPOILING THE FUTURE OF INDIA

Jain Vipul Hanskumar*, Dhankani Amitkumar Rajendra, Sandip Amarsing Tadvi and Jain Aakash Subhashchand

ABSTRACT

Addiction of the internet and the Smartphones in a young age is an emerging topic for the researchers in worldwide. There is a considerable debate on this topic of addiction in adolescents and its consequent impact on their health. Globally it was found that accessing to the Smartphones and internet had occupied more than 70% of mobile market and assessment frequency to the internet. Despite the progress that has been made in prevention, diagnosis and treatment in this disorder, the field is wide and unexplored, when it comes in a mental health nursing practice. These smartphones and internet addiction has shown their adverse effects on social, professional and academic life of an individual‟s. Moreover the effects that long hours screen exposure may on physical health, the excessive participation of children and adolescents in online gaming and social networking sites as well as the emergence of a new type of anti-social behaviors expressed by harassment, bullying, cyber crime and online suicides are a new research field in digital age. Considering the globalization and the complexity of internet & smartphones addiction mental health nurses must establish an effective program for the management of the addiction as well as the daily problems that raises such conditions. Within the clinical context of mental health, nurses can have an effective role not only in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of internet addiction but in the prevention of that phenomenon as well.

Keywords: Internet addiction, Smartphone addiction, problematic internet use, mental health nursing practice, internet & smartphones addiction treatment, children and adolescences health.