usages in Thai children and adolescent have been
increasing nowadays, and these modern lifestyles
could cause negative effects in everyday life.
Accordingly, this cross-sectional descriptive study
aimed to evaluate the impact of smartphone addiction
on health and academic performance of high school
students in Ongkharak, Nakhon Nayok.
Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was
performed by using online questionnaires which
consisted of four parts including 1) general data of
participants, 2) smartphone usage data using adapted
questionnaires from the Thai version of smartphone
addiction scale short version (SAS-SV), 3) physical
health data using adapted questionnaires from
Chuemongkon’s physical health assessment, and 4)
mental health data using Thai version of the Children’s
Depression Inventory (CDI) for depression data and
Thai version of the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) for
anxiety data.
Results: This study was conducted in 432 participants.
Most of them (59.3%) were girls and mean age of 14.6
years old. The duration and frequency of smartphone
using of most participants were 3-4 hours/day and
11-20 times/day, respectively. The results revealed
that 42.1% of students were smartphone addiction.
The impact of smartphone addiction on health and
academic performance showed that smartphone addiction was related to overall physical health,
visual health, hearing health, depression and anxiety
(p = <0. 001, 0. 020, 0. 001, 0. 001 and 0. 003,
respectively). There was no effect of smartphone
addiction on academic performance.
Conclusion: The smartphone addiction impacted on
overall physical health and mental health, including
depression and anxiety but it had no effect on
academic performance of high school students in
Ongkharak, Nakhon Nayok.
Keywords
smartphone addiction; physical health; mental health; academic performance; high school students