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Abstract
Internet has made the world a much smaller place full of opportunities to prosper with minimum resources. It has exposed vulnerable people to a deep dark world of web where they are ’suffering’ rather than ”benefitting” from internet. Compulsive use of internet leads to pathological behaviours and individuals are not able to control their internet use (Shah, 2020).
Internet addiction is typically described as a state where an individual has lost control of the internet use and keeps using internet excessively to the point where he/she experiences problematic outcomes that negatively affects life. IA is characterized by a maladaptive pattern of internet use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress (Hassan et al., 2019).
The Aim of the study:
This study aims to assess the influence of internet addiction on academic achievement among technical health institute nursing students through:
1. Assess the academic achievement level among technical health institute nursing students.
2. Assess the internet addiction level among technical health institute nursing students.
3. Assess the internet addiction related factors among technical health institute nursing students.
4. Assess the relation between internet addiction and academic achievement among technical health institute nursing students
Research question:
This study was based on answering the following research question:
What is the influence of internet addiction on academic achievement among technical health institute nursing students?
Subjects and Methods:
Technical design
The technical design includes research design, research setting, subjects and tools for data collection.
Research design:
Descriptive exploratory research design was used to carry out this study.
Research Setting:
The current study was conducted in the Tehnical Health Institute Nursing Students at Dar El shefaa hospital (in Abassia district at Cairo Governorate).
Subjects
A convenient sample of all nursing students (160) whose ages ranged from 16 to 22 years. They are classified into five years the first year: include 30 students, second year 30 students, third year 30 students, fourth year 36 students and fifth year 34 students in the technical health institute of nursing.
Tools for data collection:
To achieve the aim of the current study, two tools were used to collect data.
1. Nursing students’ assessment questionnaire:
This tool was developed by the researcher in an Arabic language based on recent and relevant literatures to assess socio demographic characteristics of the technical health institute nursing students, to assess the degrees and level of success achieved by the nursing students in the final exams of technical health institute of nursing at the end of academic year 2021-2022 and to assess the factors related to internet addiction among the technical health institute nursing students. The factors include (knowledge, social, psychological, personal, and general factors).
2. Internet addiction test:
This tool was used to assess the level of internet addiction among the technical health institute nursing students. It is a 20-item questionnaire which measures different levels of internet addiction. The questions ranged from personal daily life, social life, life performance, emotional feelings and so forth, and the test defines internet addiction predominantly by withdrawal; social problems; time management and performance; and reality substitute.
Results:
The results of this study showed the following:
The current study revealed that the study subjects’ age ranged between 18- <20 years old. Most of the nursing students in the study were spending their time on the internet during night and were spend more than 5hours on the internet.
The current study found that most factors affect internet addiction among technical health institute nursing students was the general factors which represent 66.9% of students, then lack of knowledge which represent 64.4% of students, then 59.4% affected by personal factors, 58.1% by social factors and lastly 56.9% affected by psychological factors.
The present study revealed that less than two thirds of nursing students had severe internet addiction.
There was a statistically significant and negative corrlation between total internet addiction and total factors scores at p-value <0.05.
There was a statistically significant difference between total achievement, internet addiction and total factors.