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The increasing use of mobile has raised concerns about how exposure patterns may affect mental health of children and adolescents. At one hand, there are several advantages of smartphone use such as improving academic skills, reading recognition and enriching vocabulary and expressive language. On the other hand, overuse of mobile phones may lead to mental or behavioural problems including poor academic performance, decreased real-life social interaction, neglect of one's personal life, relationship disorders and mood dysfunction. Parents faced challenges in the controlling screen time of their children. This was partly likely due to their attempts in finding a complex balance between personal and working life, and family responsibilities. Parental monitoring of mobile use by adolescents was essential to prevent adolescents from becoming victim of mobile phones addiction. Hence, there is need to minimise exposure to mobile phone by adopting appropriate strategy.