Abstract
BACKGROUND
Smart devices are being extensively used for communication and entertainment purposes. When users spend long time suing these devices, it may lead to text neck syndrome. We wanted to assess perspective, awareness, and behaviour toward the text neck among medical students of Majmaah University.
METHODS
This is an observational institutional cross-sectional study which was conducted at Majmaah University in Majmaah city. The study included 229 medical college students from the 2nd to 6th year of the college. A pre-tested questionnaire was used to evaluate the students regarding knowledge, attitude, and practice with regard to text neck syndrome.
RESULTS
This study included 229 medical college students, 140 (61.1 %) of them had good knowledge, 77 (33.6 %) of them had moderate knowledge, while only 12 (5.2 %) of them had poor knowledge. 125 (54.6 %) of them had a positive attitude, while 104 (45.4 %) of them had a negative attitude. Regarding the practice, there was a variation of answers which indicated moderate practice among the majority of them.
CONCLUSIONS
The development of technology, the increasing number of smart devices, the increasing number of users of these devices have led to increase in the number of patients of text neck syndrome. Our study shows that there was good knowledge, positive attitude, and moderate practice among these medical students toward this syndrome at Majmaah University.