Noor-ul Ain Butt, Chaman Nasrullah, Hina Aslam, Sumaira Akram, Tasneem Kauser, Tajammal Mustafa.
Mobile Phone Usage Among Female College Students.
Esculapio J Services Inst Med Sci Jan ;7(4):12-6.

Objective: To assess the prevalence and patterns of mobile phone use among female college students. Material & Methods: The colleges were selected by convenient sampling and grades were selected randomly. The study population was 332 female students. The data was collected using questionnaire. The was carried out by the doctors of community medicine department of Fatima Jinnah Medical College Lahore. Results: Three colleges having total of 332 female students were surveyed for this research purpose. A significant proportion of this study group (85.5%) was found to be using mobile phones. Monthly mobile phone expenditure of 31.3% students was 100-200 rupees. 38% students were sending less than 20 messages per day. Over 39.8% students used their mobiles for less than an hour per day. So far as features of the mobile phone and their use were concerned, text messaging was the most frequently used feature (63.6%). 10.2% of the students were in the habit of using mobile phones during their classes whereas only 13.9% students contacted their parents through mobile more than once per day. Conclusion: The above research depicted extensive use of mobile phone among female college students. Majority of the students were not using mobile phone during the class .The students used mobile to chat with their friends through messaging and their expenditure and time spent on phone was reasonable. Few of the girls were using mobile to contact their parents.

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