Age, gender, peers, life skills and quality of life influence risk of cell phone addiction among college teachers in Karnataka, India : a state level epidemiological analysis

Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics and risk of cell phone addiction among LSTCP participants

Socio demographic characteristics	Risk of cell phone addiction				Total		*p value
	Present		Absent		Total
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Age ^$ (n=1927)	37.82	9.43	39.67	8.63	39.44	8.76	0.003^¶
Gender (n=1937)
Female	42	7.85	493	92.15	535	27.62	0.001^¶
Male	188	13.41	1214	86.59	1402	72.38
Locale (n=1937)
Rural	104	13.42	671	86.58	775	40.01	0.086
Urban	126	10.84	1036	89.16	1162	59.99
Religion (n=1937)
Hindu	216	12.03	1579	87.13	1795	92.67	0.44
Others	14	9.86	125	90.14	142	7.33
Education (n=1937)
Till PUC	4	16.67	20	83.33	24	1.24	0.039^¶
Degree/Diploma	32	17.2	154	82.8	186	9.6
PG and above	194	11.23	1533	88.77	1727	89.16
Marital status (n=1934)
Currently married	160	10.65	1343	89.35	1503	77.71	0.002^¶
Never married	66	17.23	317	82.77	383	19.8
Others	4	8.33	44	91.67	48	2.48

^*p value for chi-square test for independence for categorical variables/fisher’s exact test for categorical variables and t-test for difference between two means for continuous variables ^$Numbers indicate Mean and Standard deviation in place of number and percentage, ^¶significant at p<0.05

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