A Cross sectional study to assess the usage of internet and its impact on health and academic performances among higher secondary school students in selected school of Shillong, Meghalaya.
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| contents | <p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Abstract</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Background:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"> The Internet is a global network that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext"><span>hypertext</span></a> documents and applications of the World Wide We<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web"><span>b</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web"><span>,</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email"><span>electronic </span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email"><span>mail</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email"><span>,</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_telephony"><span>telephony,</span></a> and file sharing<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing"><span>.</span></a> Internet when used adequately can be beneficial in a number of ways to the individuals but at the same time if it’s not used carefully it can affect the physical, mental and social domains of health. </span></p> <p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Methodology: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">A Non- experimental cross sectional study was conducted in BSF Senior secondary school, Umpling, Shillong, Meghalaya from 10<sup>th</sup> – 22<sup>nd</sup> April, 2023. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data from participants. Analysis was done using Descriptive and inferential statistics (chi- square). </span></p> <p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Results: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">The study revealed that out of <strong>184</strong> participants, majority of the participants in age group are below 19 years <span> </span><strong>(67.93%)</strong> and majority of the participants in gender are male (50.54%) . <strong>101(54.90%)</strong> are from science stream.<span> </span><strong>79(42.94%)</strong> participants feels the need to use internet often.<span> </span>Mental health <strong>114(61.95%)</strong> being the most affected health domain.<span> </span>All the participants use internet for academic purpose. There is no association between usage of internet and selected socio-demographic variables</span></p> <p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Conclusion: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">Our findings were majority of the participants were male and below of 19 years of age. Majority of the participants uses internet often everyday mostly during evening time. YouTube was the most common site of internet usage. Majority of the participants have opted mental health as the most affected domain after usage of internet. Out of 184 participants, 177 participants agreed that they used internet for their academic purposes. There was no association between the usage of internet and age or gender. </span></p> |
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| spellingShingle | A Cross sectional study to assess the usage of internet and its impact on health and academic performances among higher secondary school students in selected school of Shillong, Meghalaya. International Journal of Medical Science and Innovative Research (IJMSIR) Internet, Impact, Health, Academic performance <p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Abstract</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Background:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"> The Internet is a global network that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext"><span>hypertext</span></a> documents and applications of the World Wide We<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web"><span>b</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web"><span>,</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email"><span>electronic </span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email"><span>mail</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email"><span>,</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_telephony"><span>telephony,</span></a> and file sharing<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing"><span>.</span></a> Internet when used adequately can be beneficial in a number of ways to the individuals but at the same time if it’s not used carefully it can affect the physical, mental and social domains of health. </span></p> <p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Methodology: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">A Non- experimental cross sectional study was conducted in BSF Senior secondary school, Umpling, Shillong, Meghalaya from 10<sup>th</sup> – 22<sup>nd</sup> April, 2023. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data from participants. Analysis was done using Descriptive and inferential statistics (chi- square). </span></p> <p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Results: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">The study revealed that out of <strong>184</strong> participants, majority of the participants in age group are below 19 years <span> </span><strong>(67.93%)</strong> and majority of the participants in gender are male (50.54%) . <strong>101(54.90%)</strong> are from science stream.<span> </span><strong>79(42.94%)</strong> participants feels the need to use internet often.<span> </span>Mental health <strong>114(61.95%)</strong> being the most affected health domain.<span> </span>All the participants use internet for academic purpose. There is no association between usage of internet and selected socio-demographic variables</span></p> <p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Conclusion: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">Our findings were majority of the participants were male and below of 19 years of age. Majority of the participants uses internet often everyday mostly during evening time. YouTube was the most common site of internet usage. Majority of the participants have opted mental health as the most affected domain after usage of internet. Out of 184 participants, 177 participants agreed that they used internet for their academic purposes. There was no association between the usage of internet and age or gender. </span></p> |
| title | A Cross sectional study to assess the usage of internet and its impact on health and academic performances among higher secondary school students in selected school of Shillong, Meghalaya. |
| topic | Internet, Impact, Health, Academic performance |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15364684 |