Volume : VII, Issue : IX, September - 2018

A comparative analysis of internet usage among first year undergraduate and first year post–graduate medical students in a tertiary care medical university.

Dr. Priya Ranjan Avinash, Shruti Agarwal

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Medical students of the present generation have lived in the omnipresence of internet throughout their life.Internet user population world–wide has increased from 360 million in December 2000 to 3.885 billion in June 2017; this show’s that worldwide internet penetration is 51.7% of population. Medical students are vulnerable group like any other young age person. This study compared the usage pattern of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. There were variation , related to the device most commonly used , the data plan taken number of hours spent and the primary purpose of the internet use among the two groups. In both the groups the most common trigger for internet use was boredom, indicating towards the common link with other addictions. Internet use was also affected by other substance use like tobacco and alcohol.

 

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Dr. Priya Ranjan Avinash, Shruti Agarwal, A comparative analysis of internet usage among first year undergraduate and first year post–graduate medical students in a tertiary care medical university., INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-9 | September-2018

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