Internet use behaviors, internet addiction and psychological distress among medical college students: A multi centre study from South India

A cross sectional study on social media usage and health status among under graduate medical students studying in Government medical college Telangana

“…As per the study conducted by Anand et al among MBBS student in south India depression was the most common psychological symptom associated with social media addicts followed by anxiety and social isolation. 14 Similarly other studies are in support of the present study regarding high prevalence (34%) of being depressed, moody, and nervous when not online. 15,16…”

Problematic internet use in Bangladeshi students: The role of socio-demographic factors, depression, anxiety, and stress

“…In the present study, the participants were separated into two groups according to their IAT scores, the PIU group (moderate/high PIU group with a cut-off score of 50) and the non-PIU group (score <50) (Bener & Bhugra, 2013;Younes et al, 2016). Adequate and acceptable reliability and validity have been demonstrated for the scale previously (e.g., Anand et al, 2018;Bener et al, 2018;Simcharoen et al, 2018). Very good internal consistency was obtained in the present study (Cronbach's α = 0.89).…”

“…Scoring higher than 21 out of 45 is considered as indicating PIU, which may explain the differences in terms of reported prevalence to some extent (Laconi et al, 2018). Moreover, recent studies from India (an adjacent country of Bangladesh) have reported prevalence rates of 17% PIU in Delhi, India (Balhara et al, 2018), 0.8% as having severe IA in Southern India (Anand et al, 2018), and 0% IA in Northern India (8.2% having moderate IA; Grover et al, 2019) and in Southern India (9.2% at-risk IA; Shrivastava et al, 2018).…”

The assessment of internet addiction in Bangladesh: Why are prevalence rates so different?

“…The prevalence rates of IA among different Bangladeshi samples have been reported to be between 4% and 49.7% using the IAT (see Table 1). Recent studies from other Asian countries have reported prevalence rates of 17% ('problematic internet use') in Delhi, India (N=6291 students; Balhara et al, 2018), 0.8% ('severe internet addiction') in Southern India (N=1763 medical students; Anand et al, 2018), 8.2% ('moderate internet addiction'; no severe cases) in Northern India (N=1721 doctors; Grover et al, 2019), 9.2% ('at-risk internet addiction'; no severe cases) in Southern India (N=310 workplace employees; Shrivastava et al, 2018) and 0.6% ('severe internet addiction') in Chiang Mai, Thailand (N=324 medical students; Simcharoen et al, 2018). Worldwide, rates of problematic internet use and/or IA have reported between 4.2% and 26.8% when utilizing different assessment instruments and cutoff scores (Vigna-Taglianti et al, 2017).…”