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Health Hazards Related to the Pathological Use of Digital Technology Among Secondary School Students in Egypt.

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Background: Pathological use of digital technology is a chronic phenomenon associated with serious bio-psychosocial health hazards of secondary school students with an uncontrollable desire to use the technology. Aim: to assess health hazards related to the pathological use of digital technology among secondary school students in Egypt. Design: A descriptive-correlation design Results: showed that, secondary school students were exposed to various health hazards such as uncomfortable bad body mechanics (94.3%), low concentration (91.3 %), general body weakness (92%), vision impairment (68%) hearing (67.4%), and there is a significant relation between levels of education and pathological use of digital technology.Conclusions: Secondary school students had various health hazards related to the pathological use of technology.  Recommendation: The study recommended applying frequent educational sessions about the safe use of digital technology.

DOI

10.21608/ejhc.2024.352336

Keywords

Health Hazards, Pathological Use, Digital technology, Secondary school students

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Doaa

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Mansour Ali

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Lecturer, Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University

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doaa_mansour@cu.edu.eg

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Rania

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Mohammed

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Hamdy

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Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University

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raniahamdy@cu.edu.eg

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cairo

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15

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2

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46847

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2024-06-01

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2024-04-28

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2024-06-01

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252

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264

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1687-9546

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3009-6766

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https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/article_352336.html

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631

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/

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Health Hazards Related to the Pathological Use of Digital Technology Among Secondary School Students in Egypt.

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24 Dec 2024