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Mobile phone today have become an important part of our techno-culture, especially among the teenager population. Discomfort, anxiety , nervousness or anguish caused by being out of contact with a mobile phone is termed as "Nomophobia". The study to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding mobile phone addiction and is preventive measures among undergraduate hosteller in a selected university at Lucknow. Objective of the study are to assess the knowledge regarding mobile phone addiction and preventive measures among undergraduate hosteller students, to assess the attitude regarding mobile phone addiction and preventive measures among undergraduate hosteller students and to associate the knowledge and attitude score with their selected demographic variables.Review of literature and related studies help to expand the knowledge of nursing profession and enhance the investigator to narrow down to the point , and gather the information to support the study design, the methodology, develop the conceptual framework, development of tools and for analysis of data. A descriptive design was used in this study. The standard tools were used to collect the data. The content validity and reliability was done.Based on objectives, the data was analyzed and interpreted using descriptive and inferential statistics. The conclusion draws the findings of the study are follows:- this study include the undergraduate hosteller students from selected university at Lucknow. This study reveals that the majority of the students (80.5%) had moderate knowledge and (51%) had moderate attitude regarding mobile phone addiction and preventive measures. The chi- square calculated at 0.05% level of significance shows that there is significance association between knowledge regarding mobile phone addiction among undergraduate hosteller students with the age (0.05) and area of residence (0.02).