Ahuja Aditya, Prajapati Paresh, Lunagariya Ruchita, Bhowmick Rohit, Jain Sachi, Sidhu Tanvir Kaur
Resident Medical Officer, Shrimann Super-speciality Hospital, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
Department of Community Medicine, Sal Institute of Medical Sciences, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2025 May;14(5):2000-2006. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1952_24. Epub 2025 May 31.
Social networking sites (SNS) are widely used by millions of people. Excess use of social media leads to addiction which is controlling lives of young generation leading to harmful effect on their physical, mental and social well-being.
To find the prevalence of social media addiction among government and private medical college students across Punjab and uncover the ill effects of social media addiction on physical and mental health, relationships etc.
In this cross-sectional study, 717 students were included by convenience sampling technique. A reliable and validated questionnaire of previous studies was used along with self-designed questionnaire. Data were collected in Google forms and analyzed in MS Excel.
Out of total 717 students, majority (46.30%) of the students were using internet for 4-6 hours per day. Overall prevalence of addiction among MBBS students was found to be 8.64%. In physical health, sleep deprivation leading loss of concentration was the major health issue. Mood alterations due to chats of social media found to be significantly more in females than male students. Also, 64.15% of students agreed to have negative effect of social media on their academic performances.
Many students were self-described addicts, and addiction was felt more by government college students. In this study, it was found that social media addiction leads to many physical and mental health issues like sleep deprivation which leads to harmful effects on their academics as well as make them prone to many noncommunicable diseases.
社交网站（SNS）被数百万人广泛使用。过度使用社交媒体会导致成瘾，这正在控制年轻一代的生活，对他们的身心健康和社交福祉产生有害影响。
了解旁遮普邦政府和私立医学院学生中社交媒体成瘾的患病率，并揭示社交媒体成瘾对身心健康、人际关系等方面的不良影响。
在这项横断面研究中，采用便利抽样技术纳入了717名学生。使用了先前研究中一份可靠且经过验证的问卷以及自行设计的问卷。数据通过谷歌表单收集，并在MS Excel中进行分析。
在总共717名学生中，大多数（46.30%）学生每天上网4至6小时。发现MBBS学生的总体成瘾患病率为8.64%。在身体健康方面，睡眠不足导致注意力不集中是主要的健康问题。发现由于社交媒体聊天导致的情绪变化在女生中比男生更为明显。此外，64.15%的学生同意社交媒体对他们的学业成绩有负面影响。
许多学生自称成瘾，且政府学院的学生成瘾感受更强。在本研究中，发现社交媒体成瘾会导致许多身心健康问题，如睡眠不足，这会对他们的学业产生有害影响，并使他们易患许多非传染性疾病。
