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Impact of Social Media Usage on Academic Performance of Student Nurses

Rohini Sharma, Shalu Rohilla

Abstract


This is an exploratory study to assess the impact of social media usage on academic performance on student nurses in selected hospital in New Delhi. The purpose of this research was to find out the impact of social media on nursing students’ education. An exploratory survey approach and non-experimental design is used, which was conducted on 166 student nurses studying at Apollo School of Nursing of New Delhi, and subjects were selected by total enumerative sampling technique. Findings reveal that 23(13.8%) student nurses have the social media usage score <50%, 44(26.50%) student nurses have score between 50 and 60%, 23(13.8%) has sore between 60 and 70% and 35(21.08%) student nurses have social media score >70%. Out of 166 students 74 student nurses sometime use social media while travelling, out of 166 student nurses never use social media in washroom, 82 student nurses sometimes use social media during exam time. 58 student nurses don’t think that social media is the only means of entertainment, 84 student nurses always follow latest news and events from social networking sites, 60 student nurses sometimes believes that social networking sites has changed their lifestyles. No one of the student nurses cored <50% of the marks, 36(21.7%) of the students scored 50–60% in their academics, 88(53.01%) of the students scored 60-70% in their academics, 42(25.3%) of the students scored >70% in their academics. 2tab for df 3 is 7.82 at p≤0.05. the mean score of academic performance was found non-significant (0.5435). Hence, it can be deciding that the social media usages have no impact on academic performance of student nurses.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijebn.v1i1.601

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