Mobile technologies are revolutionizing the field of mental health, and particular progress has been made in their application to addiction research and treatment. The use of smartphones and other mobile devices has been shown to be feasible with individuals addicted to any of a wide range of substances, with few biases being observed concerning the repeated monitoring of daily life experiences...

Introduction: Adolescence is a time of moving from immaturity childhood to maturity adulthood.Technologies especially the mobile phone has considerably new epidemic in century. It become anessential part modern community and necessities people’s lifestyle over past decade andgained unparallel fame because it facilitates communication between individual shortening distance, agood investment time...

BACKGROUND The risk of cell phone addiction is a social and psychological problem which has been proposed by psychologists, psychiatrists, and educational supervisors. The present study aimed to investigate the behavior of mobile phone addicts and mental health of university students of Shahrekord, Iran. METHODS This study was an applied research survey for the purposes of this study. The stu...

<p class="8Abstractcontent"><span lang="EN-US">Addiction to games is a condition in which person experiences excessive discomfort, anxiety, or sadness because they cannot interact with their mobile device. This can be considered as result of smartphone use and has negative impact on the individual. Nomophobia also one effects this addiction, feels anxious afraid when are away from s...

Communication is one of the most appropriate elements to shape character children in family, but along with rapid pace communication technology begins erode and fascive because children's lives are closer technology. This research a type qualitative that aims describe how patterns who addicted cellphones family. The results this study show pattern occurs mobile phones Bandar Kumbul village, Wes...

Objective This study aimed to study the mobile phone addiction behavior and awareness on electromagnetic radiation (EMR) among a sample of Malaysian population. Methods This online study was conducted between December 2015 and 2016. The study instrument comprised eight segments, namely, informed consent form, demographic details, habituation, mobile phone fact and EMR details, mobile phone aw...

Recently, with the rapid development of related ubiquitous industries, ubiquitous-Zone (u-Zone) development is being promoted to build a ubiquitous environment within a specific area. From a health care system perspective, in particular, u-Zone is expected to contribute to reducing cost and effort to manage patients' condition such as in-patients, addiction patients and mental patients. In cont...

BACKGROUND Healthcare reform in the United States is encouraging Federally Qualified Health Centers and other primary-care practices to integrate treatment for addiction and other behavioral health conditions into their practices. The potential of mobile health technologies to manage addiction and comorbidities such as HIV in these settings is substantial but largely untested. This paper descri...