The relationship between information literacy, Internet addiction and general health of an Iranian medical students

authors:

avatar Mostafa Langarizadeh , avatar Majid Naghipour , * , avatar A. li Valinejadi , avatar Seyed Mohsen Tabatabaei , avatar Omid yousefianzadeh , avatar Somayeh Jahani Keraroudi , avatar Zahra Moradpour Shamami , avatar Abasat Mirzaei , avatar Arezoo Abbaszadeh Fallah

Koomesh: Vol.20, issue 2; 248-255
published online: April 01, 2018
article type: Research Article
received: August 01, 2017
accepted: December 01, 2017

how to cite: Langarizadeh M, Naghipour M, Valinejadi A L, Tabatabaei S M, yousefianzadeh O, et al. The relationship between information literacy, Internet addiction and general health of an Iranian medical students. koomesh. 2018;20(2):e152955. 

Abstract

Introduction: Given the prevalence of Internet use worldwide and its existing risks to societies especially the youngsters, information literacy can affect the use of Internet. Hence, the objective of present study is to assess the relationship between information literacy and Internet addiction and then to investigate the relationship between Internet addiction and general health of students in Iran University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: It is an analytical cross-sectional study which was conducted during 2016 on students in Iran University of Medical Sciences (Tehran, Iran). The sample size for the surveyed community of 6,500 university students was 362 from the Cochran sample size formula. Then, using a simple random sampling method, from each of the colleges, the sample size was selected according to the student population. Three questionnaires of information literacy, Yang;#39s Internet addiction, and general health scale (GHQ-28) were distributed among students. Finally, 365 questionnaires were collected and analyzed. Results: 29.9% of students were about to be addicted to the Internet, 1.3% had symptoms of Internet addiction and 68.8% had no addiction. In terms of information literacy, most of the students were in moderate level (60.5% moderate, 3.3% low, and 36.2% high information literacy level). There was a significant inverse relationship between increasing of information literacy and the Internet addiction (r = -0.45 and p

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