1Faculty of Nursing, Andalas University, Padang, Indonesia
*Corresponding author: Dr. Ns. Meri Neherta, M. Biomed (merineherta@nrs.unand.ac.id) Faculty of nursing, Andalas University
Online published on 7 December, 2018.
Teenagers mental health problems at this time is worrying, 1 of 7 children and adolescents aged 4–17 years or equivalent to 560, 000 people have mental disorders. Using smartphones in a long time is one of many couses of mental health problems.
The design of this study is a cross-sectional study with sample of 275 people taken randomly using stratified random sampling method. The bivariate analysis isusing the chi-square test.
The results showed that more than half of respondents (54.5%) experienced mental health problems. Then (77%) respondents who used the smartphone with long-term use of 5–6 hours a day experienced mental health problems, so it can be concluded that the long use of smartphones significantly related to adolescents mental health in Vocational High School Padang with p = 0.000 (p <0.05).
It is expected that the school can cooperate with the health services to handle mental health problems that occur in vocational high school Padang.
Smartphone, addiction, teenagers, mental health
