Bhaskara Nagavaishnavi V, Nandanur Bhavana S, Chakraborty Ananya, Ghosh Suchandra
4th Year MBBS, VIMS and RC, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Professor and HoD of Pharmacology, VIMS and RC, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Nov 30;9(11):5731-5735. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_910_20. eCollection 2020 Nov.
Social media offers a platform for its users to share information and spread awareness regarding various issues including mental health problems. In some previous studies it was found that people suffering from mental health issues benefited from social media. However, the use of social media is also significantly associated with increased depression, mood and anxiety disorders in adolescents. Furthermore, it was found that the prevalence of poor mental health was high in medical students. With this background, this study was taken up to contribute to the scarce literature about the impact social media has on the mental well-being of medical students.
The setting was a medical college and research centre, situated in the metropolitan city of Bengaluru in Karnataka. A pretested and predesigned questionnaire was self-administered anonymously by 318 students. The data was analyzed using appropriate statistics.
A statistically significant relationship was found between the amount of time spent on social media and the mental well-being score, according to the Sell and Nagpal scale, of students. In participants with scores of < 90.8, (30.2%) of them used social media for 4 hrs or more, as opposed to those with scores ≥ to 90.8, (35.6%) of them spent between 1 and 2 hrs a day on social media, 90.8 being the mean well-being score in India.
Students need to monitor their screen time. There is a need to go back to old times of establishing human connections and, families and friendships should be nurtured.
社交媒体为用户提供了一个分享信息、提高对包括心理健康问题在内的各种问题认识的平台。在之前的一些研究中发现，患有心理健康问题的人从社交媒体中受益。然而，社交媒体的使用也与青少年抑郁症、情绪和焦虑症的增加显著相关。此外，还发现医学生心理健康状况不佳的患病率很高。在此背景下，开展本研究以补充关于社交媒体对医学生心理健康影响的稀缺文献。
研究地点是位于卡纳塔克邦班加罗尔大都市的一所医学院和研究中心。318名学生自行匿名填写一份经过预测试和预先设计的问卷。使用适当的统计方法对数据进行分析。
根据塞尔和纳格帕尔量表，学生在社交媒体上花费的时间与心理健康得分之间存在统计学上的显著关系。得分<90.8的参与者中，30.2%的人使用社交媒体4小时或更长时间，而得分≥90.8的参与者中，35.6%的人每天在社交媒体上花费1至2小时，90.8是印度的平均幸福得分。
学生需要监控自己的屏幕使用时间。有必要回归建立人际关系的旧时光，应该培养家庭和友谊。
