Mobile phone use by resident doctors: Tendency to addiction-like behaviour

German Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 50-55

  Aggarwal, Munish ^a   Grover, Sandeep ^a   Basu, Debasish ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Health consequence; Mobile phone dependence; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; ICD-10; INTERNET; JOB PERFORMANCE; MOBILE PHONE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENT; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84864392027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14331055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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