Ramesh Masthi N R, Pruthvi S, Phaneendra M S
Department of Community Medicine, Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Indian J Community Med. 2018 Jul-Sep;43(3):180-184. doi: 10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_285_17.
Social Media usage is a "global consumer phenomenon" with an exponential rise within the past few years. The use of social media websites is among the common activity for today's adolescents, they are sometimes overused/misused, which may lead to social media addiction.
The objective of this study was to assess and compare the prevalence of social media addiction between Government and Private Pre-University (PU) college study subjects, to assess the health problems related to social media usage among the study subjects, and to assess the various factors associated with social media addiction.
This cross-sectional study was conducted in Government and Private PU colleges situated in a selected ward of urban Bengaluru city through multistage sampling. A total of 1870 study subjects were recruited. A scale was developed to assess social media addiction.
The prevalence of social media addiction was 36.9% among users, distributed equally among private and Government PUs. The most common health problem identified was strain on eyes (38.4%), anger (25.5%), and sleep disturbance (26.1%). Being a male, the habit of smoking, alcohol, and tobacco, consumption of junk food, having ringxiety and selfitis were found to be significant risk factors for social media addiction.
Social media addiction was found in over one-thirds of subjects and majority had mild addiction.
社交媒体的使用是一种“全球消费现象”，在过去几年中呈指数级增长。使用社交媒体网站是当今青少年的常见活动之一，有时会被过度使用/滥用，这可能导致社交媒体成瘾。
本研究的目的是评估和比较政府和私立大学预科（PU）学院研究对象中社交媒体成瘾的患病率，评估研究对象中与社交媒体使用相关的健康问题，并评估与社交媒体成瘾相关的各种因素。
本横断面研究通过多阶段抽样在位于班加罗尔市一个选定城区的政府和私立PU学院进行。共招募了1870名研究对象。开发了一个量表来评估社交媒体成瘾。
用户中社交媒体成瘾的患病率为36.9%，在私立和政府PU学院中分布均匀。确定的最常见健康问题是眼睛疲劳（38.4%）、愤怒（25.5%）和睡眠障碍（26.1%）。男性、吸烟、饮酒和吸烟习惯、食用垃圾食品、患有手机焦虑症和自拍成瘾被发现是社交媒体成瘾的重要危险因素。
超过三分之一的研究对象存在社交媒体成瘾问题，且大多数为轻度成瘾。
