Assessment of status of internet addiction and related factors among medical students of Rajkot city
Journal Title: Healthline - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: The internet is an exciting new medium that is evolving into an essential part of everyday life all over the world. It has opened a new domain in social interactivity with the promise of increasing efficiency and worldwide understanding. Though devised primarily to facilitate research, information seeking, interpersonal communication and business transactions, for some internet users it has become the central focus of their lives and a temptation that is hard to resist. Materials and Methods: It was a cross sectional study done in PDU Government Medical College, Rajkot from April 2013 to June 2013. The study included 212 medical students of 1st, 2nd, 3rd year MBBS who were using internet daily and consented to participate. Young’s Internet Addiction Test (YIAT20) was used to study the level of internet addiction. Results : Out of 212medical students, 143 (67.5%) were males and 69 (32.5%) were females and the age range was 17 to 25 years. YIAT20 showed 1 (0.5%) had the scoring in the range of 70 – 100, 61 (28.8%) had the scoring in the range of 40 – 60 and 150 (70.7%) had the scoring 20 – 39. There was significant difference for level of internet addiction and gender, year of study, duration of internet usage and length of internet usage. Conclusion : The level of internet addiction is high among the medical students, watch over the use of internet by parents and colleges necessary to prevent and stop emerging internet addiction.
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Dipesh Zalavadiya, Nirav Joshi, Mayur Vala
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