Study of mobile phone use by pupils of primary schools in the region of Košice

Abstract

Within the study of environmental quality assessment conducted by the Department of Environmental Sciences at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Technical University of Košice, we decided to start a new study which is aimed at scrutinizing a mobile phone expansion, purpose and frequency of their use by the students of primary schools, secondary schools and universities in the Slovak Republic. Since almost each child owns a mobile phone and according to different surveys conducted by the agency GFK Slovakia 9 out of 10 teenagers use mobile phone, we decided to represent this part of population in our contribution. This group of people is in terms of impact on health at highest risk. All present results of the research done on 510 students will be presented in this article.