Nomophobia “no mobile phone” and phobia” is a pathological fear of being out of contact with a mobile phone, has no mobile networks, or has insufficient balance or battery.
The present study aims to assess the effect of Nomophobia and its impact on Quality of Life in Medical Students and resident doctors in a tertiary care hospital.
An online survey using Google Forms online platform was carried out to evaluate Nomophobia using Nomophobia Questionnaire and quality of life using WHOQOL-BREF scale.
The study sample comprised 252 participants with mean age of 21.31 years. 66.7% (n=168) of them were Females and 33.3% were males(n=84). Mean score of nomophobia is 74.79 and there is a Negative correlation between Nomophobia and overall Quality of Life (r=-.198, p value=.002). Among all domains of QOL, physical(r=-.291,p=.000) and environment domains(r=-.207,p=.001) are mostly affected.