 In 21 st century, all aspects of our daily life are strongly influenced by the increasing man-machine interaction.(Golberg M., 1998)  ‘Technological addiction’ is a broad category of problematic patterns of using technological means which include excessive use of personal computer, mobile phone, internet, mp3 and etc.(Griffiths MD., 1996)  All the technologies above offers both positive and negative effects.

 Subjects uses cellphone in a variety of different ways to fulfill their communication, news and entertainment needs (Matanhelia, 2010).  The iPod culture is not bound by gender barriers and develops a combination of ‘work’ and ‘fun’ (Cooper, 2009).  The items that showed the higher satisfaction are relates to the study material, important notes, reminder can reach them daily. Besides, they highly agreed that Mobile learning has helped them pace their studies in distance learning courses (Jacob and Issac, 2008).

 Based on McClean et. al (2010), most of student agreed or strongly agreed that using cellphone for texting will help with module content.  Identified adverse social, psychological, emotional and physiological effects that may arise due to the increasing amount of time, duration and frequency spent on gadgets (Giam et al., 2011).  Reduced quality of sleep was correlated with a higher number of unexplained body discomfort (Herr et al., 2005).

 There is a high prevalence of gadgets usage among Malaysians, particularly youths. Even most primary school students are not excluded. (Wong et al. 2011)  Especially in UKM KL Campus, holding status as a health science student does not impede them to own various kind of gadgets such as MP3s, Game consoles, mobile phones and others.

 Findings from this study may be useful to university students and significant others surrounding them.  University students will understand the way they use gadgets and the consequences of its use.

 How dependent UKM health science students on gadgets?

General objectives: – To investigate how dependent UKM health science students on gadgets.

Specific objectives: – To identify most preferred gadgets by UKM health science students. – To determine the financial source and the purpose of gadgets bought by UKM health science students. – To investigate the relationship between the duration of gadgets used with academic performance.

 Mobile phone is the most preferred gadgets among UKM health science students.  Most of the UKM health science student uses scholarship to buy the gadget.  The longer the duration of gadgets usage, the poorer the academic performance.

 Descriptive study  Quantitave cross-sectional study  Study Population - UKM year 1 and year 2 health science students  Sampling Method - Random sampling (10 randomly selected students from each programmes)

 Inclusion criteria: - 4 programmes with clinical practice: Optometry Dietary Speech science Audiology  Sample size  80 UKM year 1 and year 2 students from 4 health science programmes

 Instrumentation - Using questionnaires adapted from (Priyanka Matanhelia et. al, 2010) to assess gadget dependency among health science students in UKM. - Questionnaires consists of close-ended questions only.

 The adapted questionnaire will be piloted before the actual study to test the reliability and validity of questionnaire.  The finalized questionnaire will be distributed randomly to each programmes.  Data analysis will be conducted after data collection.

 Quantitative data: Descriptive analysis - Mode and frequency of responses. - Bar chart. Inferential analysis - Linear correlation

 Matanhelia P. et al Mobile Phone Use By Young Adults In India: A Case Study.