Abstract

Background: Nomophobia is a term that describes a terrible feeling of being without a mobile device, or outside mobile phone communication, in today's world. It's on the rise between today's high school and college students. A number of college students are now using their mobile phones to shower. Sign and symptoms include Irritation, Panic, Nervousness, Anguish, and Inability to regulate or avoid using activities, severe disability, Depression, Anxiety, Social phobia. The treatment consisted of the use of medication, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and the application of evaluation tools. 

Objective: The survey on Nomophobia among Pakistan is a prospective research that was led during the months of November and December 2020 at various places of Pakistan

.Methods: For the data collection of volunteers, we designed an online survey form. 

Results: Out of the total respondents 65.2% were female and 34.8% male. Female preponderance was seen in our study. Most of the participants were in the age group of 15 to 25 years. The use of mobile phone in population varies from between 4 to 6 years 34%, 7 to 9 years 22.3%, between 1 to 3 years 20.5%, between 10 years 20.5% and less than 1 year were a very few. The time spent on usage of phone on daily basis differ from  1-2 hours 13.4%, 3-4 hours 33%, 5 hours or more, 8-10 hours 19.6%, more than 12 hours 8.5%. The frequency of checking phone every 30 minutes.

Conclusion: High levels of nomophobia especially among young women and men have been shown in the current study. The amount of hours spent using a Smartphone was the best indicator of nomophobia.