The Prevalence of Nomophobia by Population and by Research Tool: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression
Background: No systematic review or meta-analysis has yet been performed to examine the global prevalence of nomophobia by population, by instrument. Thus, this review was performed to estimate the prevalence of nomophobia by severity. Methods: American Psychological Association PsycINFO, Cochrane,...
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| author | Ali Humood Noor Altooq Abdullah Altamimi Hasan Almoosawi Maryam Alzafiri Nicola Luigi Bragazzi Mariwan Husni Haitham Jahrami |
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| description | Background: No systematic review or meta-analysis has yet been performed to examine the global prevalence of nomophobia by population, by instrument. Thus, this review was performed to estimate the prevalence of nomophobia by severity. Methods: American Psychological Association PsycINFO, Cochrane, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), EBSCOhost, EMBASE, MEDLINE, ProQuest Medical, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Web of Science from inception of each respective database to second week of January 2021 were used. There was no language restriction. The random-effect meta-analysis model was used with the DerSimonian and Laird methodology was used for computation. Results: Twenty papers, involving 12,462 participants from ten countries, were evaluated for meta-analysis. The prevalence of moderate to severe nomophobia is 70.76% [95% CI 62.62%; 77.75%]. The prevalence of severe nomophobia is 20.81% [95% CI 15.45%; 27.43%]. University students appeared to be the highest group affected with a prevalence of severe nomophobia 25.46% [95% CI 18.49%; 33.98%]. Meta-regressions of severe nomophobia showed that age and sex were not a successful predictor of severe nomophobia <i>β</i> = −0.9732, <i>p</i> = 0.2672 and <i>β</i> = −0.9732, <i>p</i> = 0.4986. Conclusions: The prevalence of severe nomophobia is approximately 21% in the general adult population. University students appeared to be the most impacted by the disorder. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-46959444eb8d4a898391d2dba242048a2023-11-22T11:07:21ZengMDPI AGPsych2624-86112021-06-013224925810.3390/psych3020019The Prevalence of Nomophobia by Population and by Research Tool: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-RegressionAli Humood0Noor Altooq1Abdullah Altamimi2Hasan Almoosawi3Maryam Alzafiri4Nicola Luigi Bragazzi5Mariwan Husni6Haitham Jahrami7College of Medicine and Medical Science, Arabian Gulf University, Manama 329, BahrainCollege of Medicine and Medical Science, Arabian Gulf University, Manama 329, BahrainCollege of Medicine and Medical Science, Arabian Gulf University, Manama 329, BahrainCollege of Medicine and Medical Science, Arabian Gulf University, Manama 329, BahrainCollege of Medicine and Medical Science, Arabian Gulf University, Manama 329, BahrainLaboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LIAM), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, CanadaCollege of Medicine and Medical Science, Arabian Gulf University, Manama 329, BahrainCollege of Medicine and Medical Science, Arabian Gulf University, Manama 329, BahrainBackground: No systematic review or meta-analysis has yet been performed to examine the global prevalence of nomophobia by population, by instrument. Thus, this review was performed to estimate the prevalence of nomophobia by severity. Methods: American Psychological Association PsycINFO, Cochrane, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), EBSCOhost, EMBASE, MEDLINE, ProQuest Medical, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Web of Science from inception of each respective database to second week of January 2021 were used. There was no language restriction. The random-effect meta-analysis model was used with the DerSimonian and Laird methodology was used for computation. Results: Twenty papers, involving 12,462 participants from ten countries, were evaluated for meta-analysis. The prevalence of moderate to severe nomophobia is 70.76% [95% CI 62.62%; 77.75%]. The prevalence of severe nomophobia is 20.81% [95% CI 15.45%; 27.43%]. University students appeared to be the highest group affected with a prevalence of severe nomophobia 25.46% [95% CI 18.49%; 33.98%]. Meta-regressions of severe nomophobia showed that age and sex were not a successful predictor of severe nomophobia <i>β</i> = −0.9732, <i>p</i> = 0.2672 and <i>β</i> = −0.9732, <i>p</i> = 0.4986. Conclusions: The prevalence of severe nomophobia is approximately 21% in the general adult population. University students appeared to be the most impacted by the disorder.https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8611/3/2/19anxietynomophobiano-mobile-phobiaNMP-Q |
| spellingShingle | Ali Humood Noor Altooq Abdullah Altamimi Hasan Almoosawi Maryam Alzafiri Nicola Luigi Bragazzi Mariwan Husni Haitham Jahrami The Prevalence of Nomophobia by Population and by Research Tool: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression Psych anxiety nomophobia no-mobile-phobia NMP-Q |
| title | The Prevalence of Nomophobia by Population and by Research Tool: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression |
| title_full | The Prevalence of Nomophobia by Population and by Research Tool: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression |
| title_fullStr | The Prevalence of Nomophobia by Population and by Research Tool: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Prevalence of Nomophobia by Population and by Research Tool: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression |
| title_short | The Prevalence of Nomophobia by Population and by Research Tool: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression |
| title_sort | prevalence of nomophobia by population and by research tool a systematic review meta analysis and meta regression |
| topic | anxiety nomophobia no-mobile-phobia NMP-Q |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8611/3/2/19 |
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