| publication name | Internet Addiction and Its relationship with Nursing Students’ Health Profile |
|---|---|
| Authors | 1 Fatma A. Eiz - Elregal , 2 Manal Saad Shaker 3Hanan Abd Elwahab El Sayed 4 Enaam Abd-El latif |
| year | 2018 |
| keywords | Internet addiction, Health Profile, Nursing students. |
| journal | Egyptian Journal of Health Care |
| volume | 9 |
| issue | 4 |
| pages | Not Available |
| publisher | Hanan Abd Elwahab El Sayed |
| Local/International | International |
| Paper Link | Not Available |
| Full paper | download |
| Supplementary materials | Hanan Abd El-wahab El-sayed_1.pdf |
Abstract
Nursing students need to be aware of the optimal use of the Internet because they spend a lot of time conducting scientific research that complements the academic curriculum, but when a nursing student becomes unable to control the use of the Internet, this leads to internet addiction and this will affect their physical, psychological and social health. Aim: This study was to assess internet addiction and its relationship with the nursing student‟s health profile. Design: a descriptive correlative study design was used to achieve the aim of this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the Technical Institute of Nursing, Fayoum University. The sample: A simple random sample (322) nursing students Out of 754 Nursing students. Tools of data collection: The study included three tools first tool: a selfadministered questionnaire to assess the socio-demographic characteristics of nursing students. Second tool: Young Internet Addiction Scale (IAT) to assess the level of internet addiction; the third tool: The Duke Health Profile. Results: It was found that 8.1% of nursing students were addictive internet users and15.5% of them were at risk. 80.8%, 80.0% of addicts, and at-risk students had poor total the duke health profile, and 78.9% average internet user students had good total manual scoring for the duke health profile. A positive highly statistically significant difference between the level of Internet Addiction and the duke health profile (p