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Level of Dependency on Social Media Among Nursing Students

Mandeep Kaur

Abstract


Social media platform allows users to share information and create web contents. There are various kinds of social media including different types of blogs, photo sharing sites, prompt messaging, and beyond. The nursing students especially females are likely than males and share their personal information on social media. The study took place at the Chief Khalsa Diwan International Nursing College in Amritsar, Punjab. The study sample comprised of 100 nursing students from selected nursing institute. Nonprobability purposive sampling method was used to gather the information. Written consent was taken from the nursing students who selected as a sample. SMAS-SF (Social Media Addiction Scale Student Form) was used to assess the level of dependency on social media among nursing student pamphlets were prepared and disturbed regarding the effect of excessive use of social media among nursing students. The finding of the study revealed that 36% nursing students were having very high-level addiction, 33% nursing students were high addiction, 24% nursing students were having medium-level addiction, and 7% nursing student were having low-level addiction. The study may be conducted on a large sample size in a variety of research settings. Similar studies can be done to assess the level of dependency on social media among adult and other college/school students.


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