Smartphone addiction and its impact on quality of sleep and academic performance among nursing students. Institutional based cross-sectional study in Western Rajasthan /Adicción a los teléfonos inteligentes y su impacto en la calidad del sueño y el rendimiento académico entre los estudiantes de enfermería. estudio transversal de base institucional en el oeste de Rajastan

Objective. To explore the smartphone addiction and its impact on quality of sleep and academic performance among the nursing students. Methods. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among the nursing students (n = 160) in tertiary care teaching hospital in western Rajasthan (India) by using standardized Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version (SAS-SV), the quality of sleep was assessed by standardized Pittsburg's Sleep Quality Index scale (PSQI) and academic performance was assessed by self -made Academic Performance Scale. Results. In this study 38.1 % students were having moderate smartphone addiction. The smartphone addiction is directly associated with hours daily spend on smartphone (p