MOBILE PHONE USAGE AND DISTRACTION IN LEARNING SESSIONS
Objective: To identify the prevalence of mobile phone use in class rooms and the distraction they cause. Study Design: Mixed method transformational study conducted in pragmatic paradigm. Place and Duration of Study: Army Medical College, Rawalpindi, from 1st Mar 2017 to 31st Mar 2017. Mate...
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Army Medical College Rawalpindi
2019-02-01
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| author | Jawad Jalil Sohail Sabir |
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| description | Objective:
To identify the prevalence of mobile phone use in class rooms and the distraction they cause. Study Design: Mixed method transformational study conducted in pragmatic paradigm.
Place and Duration of Study: Army Medical College, Rawalpindi, from 1st Mar 2017 to 31st Mar 2017.
Material and Methods:
Focus group discussions were conducted employing three expressive students from each of the three classes. These discussions were used to develop themes which were then utilized to formulate a questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by two expert medical educationists. The survey was conducted by distributing the self-answering questionnaire among the students. Simple descriptive statistics were then used to analyze the cross sectional data thus collected using SPSS version 20.
Results:
A total of 300 forms were distributed of which 235 (78.33%) were retrieved. Ninety one (38.72%) were from 3rd year, 82 (34.89%) from 4th year and 62 (26.38%) from final year. A total of 124 (52.8%) were males and 111 (47.2%) were females. Fifty three point two percent used their mobile in class rooms 21-30 times/day and 12.3% even more than that. Fifty four percent students texted and 17% played games during the class. About 50% claimed that they spent 25-50% class time on their mobiles. About 30% claimed that they used mobiles to fight boredom in the class............. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5f04146eec354080abda4bdd2d5687632022-12-21T19:20:29ZengArmy Medical College RawalpindiPakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal0030-96482411-88422019-02-016915459MOBILE PHONE USAGE AND DISTRACTION IN LEARNING SESSIONSJawad Jalil0Sohail Sabir1Combined Military Hospital/National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS) Rawalpindi PakistanCombined Military Hospital Lahore/National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS) PakistanObjective: To identify the prevalence of mobile phone use in class rooms and the distraction they cause. Study Design: Mixed method transformational study conducted in pragmatic paradigm. Place and Duration of Study: Army Medical College, Rawalpindi, from 1st Mar 2017 to 31st Mar 2017. Material and Methods: Focus group discussions were conducted employing three expressive students from each of the three classes. These discussions were used to develop themes which were then utilized to formulate a questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by two expert medical educationists. The survey was conducted by distributing the self-answering questionnaire among the students. Simple descriptive statistics were then used to analyze the cross sectional data thus collected using SPSS version 20. Results: A total of 300 forms were distributed of which 235 (78.33%) were retrieved. Ninety one (38.72%) were from 3rd year, 82 (34.89%) from 4th year and 62 (26.38%) from final year. A total of 124 (52.8%) were males and 111 (47.2%) were females. Fifty three point two percent used their mobile in class rooms 21-30 times/day and 12.3% even more than that. Fifty four percent students texted and 17% played games during the class. About 50% claimed that they spent 25-50% class time on their mobiles. About 30% claimed that they used mobiles to fight boredom in the class.............https://www.pafmj.org/index.php/PAFMJ/article/view/2496/2051medical studentsdigital distraction |
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| title | MOBILE PHONE USAGE AND DISTRACTION IN LEARNING SESSIONS |
| title_full | MOBILE PHONE USAGE AND DISTRACTION IN LEARNING SESSIONS |
| title_fullStr | MOBILE PHONE USAGE AND DISTRACTION IN LEARNING SESSIONS |
| title_full_unstemmed | MOBILE PHONE USAGE AND DISTRACTION IN LEARNING SESSIONS |
| title_short | MOBILE PHONE USAGE AND DISTRACTION IN LEARNING SESSIONS |
| title_sort | mobile phone usage and distraction in learning sessions |
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| url | https://www.pafmj.org/index.php/PAFMJ/article/view/2496/2051 |
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