Background: With the rise of new generation gadgets, the risk of “internet addiction” is emerging as a significant behavioral addiction pandemic to be tackled worldwide. Internet addiction can be defined as an impulse disorder. Objective of the study was to determines the level of Internet addiction in Students. To identify the behavioural and any health-related problems associated with internet addiction among students. Methods: This study was a cross sectional study carried out in 7 different engineering colleges of Jabalpur city during the period of 1 July 2016 to 30 September 2016. Results: In present study the prevalence of internet addiction was found to be 74 %. 26 % of the participants were found with no internet addictions whereas 55 % and 17.67 % of the participants were found to be mild and moderate addicted whereas only 1.33 % of the participants were severely addicted to internet addiction. Participant who has internet addiction has 84.8 % of yelling and annoying behavior while 86.5 % participants with internet addiction have secretive and defensive behavior. Association was found to be highly significant (p = <0.001). Ill effects like problem related to eye have significant effect on the participants with internet addiction i.e. 66.17 %. Association of problem related to eye problems with internet addiction was significant with the p = 0.02. Conclusions: The problem is alarming and progressing to an addictive state in the near future Interventions like setting boundaries and detecting early warning signs of underlying psychopathology at the earliest are required.

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Internet addiction, behavioural aspects, and health related problems associated with it: a cross sectional study among engineering students of Jabalpur district

Introduction: The Internet was originally designed to facilitate communication and research activities. However, the dramatic increase in internet usage in recent years has led to pathological use (Internet addiction). There is a high incidence of internet addiction in Iran synchronous to the other regions of the world. The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of internet usage among the students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences.Methods: The present study was done on 400 students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science. The amount of internet usage was measured with a standard questionnaire and compared with demographic information of volunteers. Data were analyzed by SPSS (Version 17) using chi-square and ANOVA tests. Results: This study included about 400 students of various medical courses and fields. One hundred-sixteen students were female and 284 students were male. Average of 61.6% had degrees of internet addiction. 52.5% of students had low internet addiction and 9.1% of students had moderate internet addiction. On the basis of our findings, amount of internet usage was not related to age, sex, marital status and the field of the students. Duration of internet use, settling and type of search motor were significantly related to internet addiction.Conclusions: Internet addiction is very prevalent among students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science. It is necessary to design plans for prevention of internet addiction and promoting healthy use of the Internet.

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Fatemeh Arab BaniAsad

Papers

The Prevalence of Internet Usage Among the Students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran in 2012