PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF INTERNET ADDICTION AMONG FACULTY OF NURSING STUDENTS AT PORT SAID UNIVERSITY | ||
| Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing | ||
| Article 1, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 275-293 PDF (514.09 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/pssjn.2021.59431.1081 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Elsaida Gamal Bagdady* 1; Eman Saleh Shahin2; Afaf Abdallah mohamed3; Sohier Goda Elsaid4 | ||
| 1Medical surgical nursing faculty of nursing portsaid university | ||
| 2medical surgical nursing - faculty of nursing port said university | ||
| 3Family and community health , faculty of nursing , port said university | ||
| 4psychiatry and mental health nursing , faculty of nursing port said university | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background. The internet addiction has numerous physical and psychological effects on health of the student’s faculty. Aim: Determine the physical and psychological effects of internet addiction among faculty of Nursing students at Port Said University. Setting: Faculty of Nursing, Port Said University. Subjects and Method: Design: A descriptive design was employed. Subjects: A sample of 124 students from the four academic years at faculty of Nursing, Port Said University, were involved. Tools: Three tools were used tool I. Internet use assessment sheet, tool II the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) to assess internet addiction. Tool III a measure of severity of physical and psychological symptoms as a result of using the internet scale. Results. The study results showed that headache represented a percent score of 60.48 ± 26. 44, while sleep problems represented percent score of 54.19 ± 27.20. The psychological problems percent score 43.68 ± 29.19. Furthermore, the moderate using the internet was 39.5% among the studied sample. Conclusion: The present study proved that headache, sleep problems and psychological symptoms (fear - depression -anxiety) respectively were the highest sever symptoms resulted from using the internet. There is significant relation between total scores of psychological symptoms, internet using scale and time of using internet. Recommendations: Improve attitude and knowledge regarding physical and/or psychological health hazards of using mobile phone and internet addiction. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Internet addiction; Physical and psychological effects | ||
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