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PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF INTERNET ADDICTION AMONG FACULTY OF NURSING STUDENTS AT PORT SAID UNIVERSITY

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Community Health Nursing
Medical Surgical Nursing
Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health

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.

DOI

10.21608/pssjn.2021.59431.1081

Keywords

Internet Addiction, Physical and psychological effects

Authors

First Name

Elsaida

Last Name

Bagdady

MiddleName

Gamal

Affiliation

Medical surgical nursing faculty of nursing portsaid university

Email

soso73gamal@yahoo.com

City

Portsaid

Orcid

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First Name

Eman

Last Name

Shahin

MiddleName

Saleh

Affiliation

medical surgical nursing - faculty of nursing port said university

Email

emanshaheen@yahoo.com

City

Portsaid

Orcid

-

First Name

Afaf

Last Name

mohamed

MiddleName

Abdallah

Affiliation

Family and community health , faculty of nursing , port said university

Email

afafabedallah25@yahoo.com

City

portsaid

Orcid

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First Name

Sohier

Last Name

Elsaid

MiddleName

Goda

Affiliation

psychiatry and mental health nursing , faculty of nursing port said university

Email

dr_smy2000@yahoo.com

City

portsaid

Orcid

-

Volume

8

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

24976

Issue Date

2021-06-01

Receive Date

2021-03-05

Publish Date

2021-06-01

Page Start

275

Page End

293

Print ISSN

2356-8658

Online ISSN

2682-3241

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866

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Publication Title

Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing

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https://pssjn.journals.ekb.eg/

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PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF INTERNET ADDICTION AMONG FACULTY OF NURSING STUDENTS AT PORT SAID UNIVERSITY

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22 Jan 2023