Excessive screen usage has effects on sleep, mental health conditions including depression and anxiety. it can abstract the ability to interpret emotions, fuel aggressive conduct and harm one’s psychological health in general.

Aim of the study was to assess the screen time usage among adults and their knowledge regarding impact of screen time usage on health.

Methods: A descriptive research study was conducted with the aim to assess the screen-time usage and their knowledge regarding its impact on health among 100 adults in Bagalkot College of Nursing Bagalkot. Convenient sampling technique was used to select the college and proportionate stratified random sampling technique was use to select the participants. Data related to screen time usage and its impacts on health was gathered by using structured interview schedule with the help of structured knowledge questionnaire. The adults who were willing to participate in the study were selected. Frequency and percentage distribution were used to describe the variables under the study and chi square test was used to find out the association between knowledge regarding its impact on health with selected socio-demographic variables.

Results: In the present study 84% of adults were in the age group of 20 years, 80% belongs to Hindu religion and 28% adults were having more than 3 mobile phones at home, 66% of participants are females and 78% were studying B Sc Nursing. 56% adults were using screen for more than 3 Hrs per day, 89% of participants’ most commonly used screen device was mobile, 77% were using mobile phone in the evening. 90% of adults screen usage place was home and for 39% of adults the influencing factor for mobile usage was social media, for 81% participants mobile phone was most likely used screen device, for 74% adults mobile phone was the comfortable screen device and for 59% participants mobile phone was used for the purpose of study. Description of adults based on their knowledge regarding ill effects of screen time usage showed that 24% adults were having average knowledge following this 21% were having good, 18% poor, 15% very good, 12% excellent and 10% participants were having very poor knowledge. Variables like age, gender and number of mobile phones at home were having significant association with knowledge regarding impact of screen time usage.

Conclusion: After analyzing the facts of the present study it concludes that girls use more mobile phones than boys, more number of participants are having less knowledge regarding ill effects of screen time usage on health i.e impact on physical health like – sleep disturbance, eye strain and vision problems, sedentary behavior and mental health like – anxiety and stress, depression addiction, poor academic performance in school, lack of social relations and memory loss.