Assess the level of Social Networking sites addiction among B.Sc. Nursing IV year students in selected Nursing college of Indore.

Mrs. Gauri Manohar; Ms. Shweta Joshi

Volume : VIII, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

Assess the level of Social Networking sites addiction among B.Sc. Nursing IV year students in selected Nursing college of Indore.

Mrs. Gauri Manohar, Ms. Shweta Joshi

Abstract :

Online social networks, stands out for two reasons: its success, both in terms of membership and quality of information available on it; and the fact that, unlike other networks catered to young users, the information is uniquely and personally identiﬁed. Aim: To Assess the addiction level of social media among B.Sc nursing IV year students. Materials and methods: A quantitative research approach, descriptive research design was adopted for the study. Total 47 samples were obtained from IV year B.Sc nursing students selected by using consecutive sample technique. The data was analyzed by using the descriptive and inferential statistic. Major finding of the study: It is found that 5.64% participants are not addicted, 15.98% are moderately addicted, 0.47% are severely addicted. Statistical analysis showed that mean addiction level of B.Sc nursing student level of is 100.70 which comes under moderately addiction. The study revealed that there is no association of the addiction level regarding use of social networking sites with their selected socio demographic variables, thus null hypothesis (H0) is retained.