217 International Journal Of Nursing and Midwifery Science (IJNMS) , Volume2, Issue 3, December © 2018 International Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Science(IJNMS) This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted non- commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://ijnms.net/index.php/ijnms ORIGINAL RESEARCH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GADGET ADDICTION AND VISUAL ACUITY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT OF MLIRIP II MOJOKERTO Tria Wahyuningrum 1 , Veryudha Eka Prameswari 2 Bina Sehat PPNI health science institute Mojokerto regency East Java Indonesia Email correspondence: triyuss@gmail.com & veryudhaekap@gmail.com ABSTRACT Keywords Technology that is increasingly sophisticated is very influential in human life. Countless types of technology can be found in this modern era. One example of a very popular technology is gadgets. Psychologically, gadgets are easy to create addiction, game facilities that exist in the gadget make children always challenged to reach a higher level. The analytic correlation using crossectional study design was applied in this study. 95 respondents were involved in this study to examine the association between frequency, duration and types of gadgets and visual acuity in elementary school of mlirip II. The results showed that there were significant correlation between duration aand frequency using a gadget with visual acuity among students, results of p-value is 1,000> 0.005 then accept the null hypothesis which means the model is fit. So the model interprets the effect between duration, frequency and type of gadget on visual acuity. While Type of gadget has a negative correlation with visual acuity As for the type of gadget p-value is 0.624 where> 0.05 so that the type of gadget is not significant. If the duration of gadget usage increases, the decrease in visual acuity ratio increases by 5,299 times. If the frequency of gadget usage increases, the ratio of decreased visual acuity increases by 5,986 times. The level of accuracy of the model in this study was 85.3%. Eye disease problems in children can be prevented by early detection to find out the vision status in children supported by eye examination as a measuring instrument, namely snallen card (Snellen card). Duration, frequency, type of gadget and visual acuity e-ISSN : 2597-9345 p-ISSN : 2597-761X