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As nomophobia is a relatively recent phenomenon, data quantifying the adverse effects are crucial, and its relationship with physical, psychological, and psychosocial health consequences among university students remains unclear.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Eligibility criteria:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This review will include cross-sectional, case-control, and cohort studies focusing on university students, regardless of their sex and geographic location, who were assessed as nomophobic (based on the Nomophobia Questionnaire [NMP-Q] developed in 2015). The studies will need to report the students\u2019 physical, psychological, and psychosocial health consequences due to nomophobia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This review will follow the JBI methodology for systematic reviews of etiology and risk. Academic and non-academic databases and gray literature will be searched, including MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), CINAHL (EBSCOhost), Cochrane CENTRAL, Web of Science Core Collection, ProQuest, Health and Medical Collection (ProQuest), PsycINFO (Ovid), and Google Scholar (up to 20 pages). Titles, abstracts, and full texts of included studies will be independently screened by 2 reviewers, with any disagreements resolved by a third reviewer. Critical appraisal will be conducted using JBI checklists. Where possible, the studies will be pooled using random-effects meta-analysis. 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