The effect of smart phone addiction on health improvement and protective behaviors in high school students

This research was conducted to examine the effect of smartphone addiction on health promotion and protective behaviors in high school students. This research was carried out with 317 high school students in all high schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Dursunbey district of Balıkesir province between February 2023 and April 2023. Research data were collected by face-to-face interview technique with "Personal Information Form", "Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version" and "Health Promoting and Protective Behaviors Scale". Number in data analysis, average, pearson product-moment correlation analysis, simple linear regression analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA test, Tukey test and Tamhane T2 test were used. Significance level was taken as p<0.05. The mean age of the high school students participating in the study was 16.09±1.29. The average score of the students from the Short Version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale was 28.06±9.36, and the level of addiction was found to be low. The mean total score of SGKDÖ was 74.11±9.69, and the highest score was obtained from the sub-dimension of promoting physical health from the sub-dimensions of SGKDÖ. It has been determined that gender, high school, perceived school success, adequate and balanced nutrition, and coping with stress affect the Smartphone Addiction Short Version score. It was determined that the addiction of girls, those with moderate perceived school success, those who do not have adequate and balanced nutrition, and those who have a negative coping status with stress were found to be higher. High school students who live in a district or city center, whose father works at a job, who have their own room, who have good or moderate perceived family income and school success, who see their friends, who do more than 2 activities in evaluating their time outside of school and do homework, whose current health status evaluated as good, who eat adequately and balanced , who do physical activity, who have a good relationship with their family or friends, who receive training on health-promoting and protective behaviors, and who read publications have higher SGKDÖ total scores. A low-level positive and significant relationship was found between the SGKDÖ psychosocial health promotion sub-dimension score and the ATBÖ-KV score. (p<0.001). As a result, it has been observed that smartphone addiction has a positive effect on the development of psychosocial health of high school students. Keywords: Smartphone addiction, high school students, health promoting and protective behaviors.