Effect of Exercise rehabilitation programme on smart phone addiction among young adults from selected colleges of the city

Abstract

newline The human race lives in an age of information overload. With the invention of newlinenew technologies and gadgets, people have more access to the pool of information at a newlinegreater speed than ever. Communities are reaching a point where there is just too much newlinestuff to absorb. With a simple movement on a smartphone touch screen, everyone has the newlineopportunity to search for and discover most of the information. Information has never newlinebefore been so easily accessible and available at the fingertip. The number of smartphone newlineusers in India is estimated to reach 299.24 million, with the number of smartphone users newlineworldwide forecast to exceed 2.3 billion by that time. The reports also indicate that, time newlinespent on smartphones and the internet has doubled. Improved mobile internet newline1 newlineinfrastructure, the declining price of high-speed data, and the availability of smartphones newlineare the primary reasons behind the radical shift in smartphone users behavior. The newlinemaximum usage (48% of smartphone users) of the smartphone is found during working newlinehours.