Introduction:
Many school students who own mobile phones or electronic gadgets spent most of their time there. As a result, both of the aspects of educational achievement and health status are affected as they're too hooked into the electronic gadget.
Objective:
The overall objective of this study was to work out the association of electronic gadget use with academic performance and health status among selected students in Kuantan, Pahang.
Materials and Methods:
A descriptive, cross-sectional study by using convenient sampling was conducted on a sample size of 233 school students at three selected secondary schools involving SMK Pelindung, SMK Bukit Goh, and SMK Teluk Chempedak. The instrument used was a structured questionnaire to assess the entire time spent on electronic gadgets, students’ academic performance, and students’ health status. the info was analyzed by using SPSS version 20 in terms of descriptive statistics and Pearson Chi-Square test to check the many associations.
Result:
There have been 233 school students involved during this study and the majority of them (59.2%) were Malay. For gender, 53.2% were male and 46.8% were female. In a total of 48.1%, students were spending time quite 6 hours on electronic gadgets, and therefore the remaining 51.9% of students spending time but 5.99 hours on electronic gadgets. supported the findings, the result showed that there was a significant association between race, gender, parent income, level of dependency, academic performance and health status and therefore the total time spent on electronic gadget but opposing, there was no significant association between years started using the electronic gadget and total time spent on an electronic gadget.
Conclusion:
Majority of scholars who spent longer on electronic gadget use has a high level of dependency towards gadget, poor academic achievement, and good health status. Thus, the healthcare providers should plan effective interventions like introduce applications on electronic gadgets for tutorial purposes and health tracking to beat these problems in order that students can balance between their academic achievement and health status and increase wellness and health among school students.
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