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Age, gender, peers, life skills and quality of life influence risk of cell phone addiction among college teachers in Karnataka, India : a state level epidemiological analysis

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Cell phones are an integral part of modern day life and have become companions for individuals irrespective of age, gender and socio-economic status.
BS Pradeep, Anusha B Shenoy, S Shahane, RN Srividya, Mutharaju Arelingaiah, Rochana D’Souza, Lavanya Garady, MK Jyoti, Suma Rache, Anand Dixit, Gananath Shetty Yekkar, Prathap Lingaiah, Shalini Rajneesh, G Gururaj   +13 more
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Using the cell phone while standing or walking affects balance and mobility in people with Parkinson's disease

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2023
Background Cell phones are part of peoples' lives. The literature indicates risks when cell phones are used during a secondary motor task. Studies addressing this topic in people with Parkinson's disease are still scarce.
Tayla Borges Lino, Milena Nunes de Oliveira da Silva, Isabela Corrêa de Paula, Sarah Jane Lemos de Melo, Suzi Rosa Miziara Barbosa, Gustavo Christofoletti   +5 more
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The discriminational role of emotion dysregulation, metacognitive belies, intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety in discriminant two groups of students with and without mobile phone addiction

Social Determinants of Health, 2022
Background: Emotional dysregulation, metacognitive beliefs, intolerance of uncertainty, and anxiety can play a very important role in a person's personal and social life.
Seyyed Naser Hossini, Mehrdad Sabet, Fariborz Dortaj, Arezoo Shomali Oskouie   +3 more
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Cell phone use predicts being an “active couch potato”: results from a cross-sectional survey of sufficiently active college students

Digital Health, 2019
Objective “Active couch potato” describes an individual who is sufficiently physically active yet highly sedentary. Cell phones promote activities understood as sedentary behaviors (e.g. watching videos).
Andrew Lepp, Jacob E. Barkley
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A feasibility study of cell phone and landline phone interviews for monitoring of risk and protection factors for chronic diseases in Brazil

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2011
The study objective was to evaluate the feasibility of interviews by cell phone as a complement to interviews by landline to estimate risk and protection factors for chronic non-communicable diseases. Adult cell phone users were evaluated by random digit
Erly Catarina Moura, Rafael Moreira Claro, Regina Bernal, Juliano Ribeiro, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Otaliba Morais Neto   +5 more
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The Impact of Driver Cell Phone Use on Accidents [PDF]

Cell phone use is increasing worldwide, leading to a concern that cell phone use while driving increases accidents. Several countries, three states and Washington, D.C. have banned the use of hand-held cell phones while driving. In this paper, we develop
Hahn, Robert W., Prieger, James E.
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The phone as a tool for combining online and offline social activity – teenagers’ phone access to an online community [PDF]

, 2012
We have analyzed two months of log data and 100 surveys on the phone use of a Swedish online community for teenagers to investigate the mobile use of an established online service.
Larshammar, Malin, Nylander, Stina
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Nutritional and Behavioral Intervention for Long‐Term Childhood Acute Leukemia Survivors With Metabolic Syndrome

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a common complication in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemia (AL), and a major risk factor for premature cardiovascular disease, type‐2‐diabetes, and metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD).
Visentin Sandrine, Béliard Sophie, Renard Cécile, Caussy Cyrielle, Hamidou Zeinab, Romano David, Gacem Mélanie, Petit Arnaud, Saultier Paul, Borentain Patrick, Michel Gérard   +10 more
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A Study to Assess Economic Burden and Practice of Cell Phone Disposal among Medical Students [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2013
Context: Our country India is having 919.17 million cell phone users; currently this is the second largest number of cell phone users after China. The youth spend a good amount on talk time and purchasing cell phone handsets.
Mittal Anuj, Vedapriya Dande Rajasekar, Lavanya Krishnagopal   +2 more
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Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Alan R. Barker, Dimitris Vlachopoulos, Tomáš Sláma, Christina Schindera, Fabiën N. Belle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source