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Prevalence of internet addiction among Syrian undergraduate medical students
The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence and risk factors for internet addiction disorder among Syrian medical students. Syrian medical students from 8 different universities participated in an online cross-sectional questionnaire study between May 13 and June 16, 2022. DASS-21 Depre...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9750638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36626507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000032261 |
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author | Latifeh, Youssef Alkhatib, Yaseen Hmidouch, Mohiar Swed, Sarya Hafez, Wael Sawaf, Bisher Rakab, Amine |
author_facet | Latifeh, Youssef Alkhatib, Yaseen Hmidouch, Mohiar Swed, Sarya Hafez, Wael Sawaf, Bisher Rakab, Amine |
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description | The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence and risk factors for internet addiction disorder among Syrian medical students. Syrian medical students from 8 different universities participated in an online cross-sectional questionnaire study between May 13 and June 16, 2022. DASS-21 Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale, and Internet Addiction Test were the 3 main determinants of the questionnaire. One thousand nine hundred fifty-three medical students from 8 different Syrian universities have participated in our cross-sectional. Half of the participants were from the Syrian private and Damascus universities. 62.1% were females, and most participants had good academic degrees (70–90/100). Sixty-nine percent of the study participants thought that COVID19 increased internet use rates. The Internet Addiction Scale’s average score was 33.48 ± 16.29 (1–100). The total young internet addiction test score was high among medical students from the faculty of medicine university, students from Damascus University, males, smokers, and medical students with lower academic credentials than other subgroups. Both the relationship between internet addiction and DASS-21 subgroups and the correlation between DASS-21 subgroups were statistically significant. Our research showed that internet addiction was widespread among Syrian medical students, particularly when used more for entertainment than educational purposes. Additionally, it was linked to poor academic degrees in the exams at the university and mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and stress. |
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spelling | pubmed-97506382022-12-28 Prevalence of internet addiction among Syrian undergraduate medical students Latifeh, Youssef Alkhatib, Yaseen Hmidouch, Mohiar Swed, Sarya Hafez, Wael Sawaf, Bisher Rakab, Amine Medicine (Baltimore) 6600 The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence and risk factors for internet addiction disorder among Syrian medical students. Syrian medical students from 8 different universities participated in an online cross-sectional questionnaire study between May 13 and June 16, 2022. DASS-21 Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale, and Internet Addiction Test were the 3 main determinants of the questionnaire. One thousand nine hundred fifty-three medical students from 8 different Syrian universities have participated in our cross-sectional. Half of the participants were from the Syrian private and Damascus universities. 62.1% were females, and most participants had good academic degrees (70–90/100). Sixty-nine percent of the study participants thought that COVID19 increased internet use rates. The Internet Addiction Scale’s average score was 33.48 ± 16.29 (1–100). The total young internet addiction test score was high among medical students from the faculty of medicine university, students from Damascus University, males, smokers, and medical students with lower academic credentials than other subgroups. Both the relationship between internet addiction and DASS-21 subgroups and the correlation between DASS-21 subgroups were statistically significant. Our research showed that internet addiction was widespread among Syrian medical students, particularly when used more for entertainment than educational purposes. Additionally, it was linked to poor academic degrees in the exams at the university and mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and stress. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9750638/ /pubmed/36626507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000032261 Text en Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License 4.0 (CCBY-NC) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download, share, remix, transform, and buildup the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be used commercially without permission from the journal. |
spellingShingle | 6600 Latifeh, Youssef Alkhatib, Yaseen Hmidouch, Mohiar Swed, Sarya Hafez, Wael Sawaf, Bisher Rakab, Amine Prevalence of internet addiction among Syrian undergraduate medical students |
title | Prevalence of internet addiction among Syrian undergraduate medical students |
title_full | Prevalence of internet addiction among Syrian undergraduate medical students |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of internet addiction among Syrian undergraduate medical students |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of internet addiction among Syrian undergraduate medical students |
title_short | Prevalence of internet addiction among Syrian undergraduate medical students |
title_sort | prevalence of internet addiction among syrian undergraduate medical students |
topic | 6600 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9750638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36626507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000032261 |
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