Internet addiction of students at the vocational high school of healthcare

Abstract

The aim of this study is to survey the internet addiction level of the students of Adıyaman University Health Vocational High School and to define the factors that affects it. The scope of descriptive research consists of 371 students of Adiyaman University Vocational School of Health Services. After the necessary permission from the related institute, to collect information from 1 to 20 December 2013 data were collected through face to face interviews. As a means of data collection; personal questionnaire and Internet addiction scale was used. In terms of statistical analyzes, the "Mann-Whitney U" test and Kruskal-Wallis H test were used. In this study, the frequency of problematic Internet use was found as 3.5% (8 people). A statistically significant relationship between Internet addiction and participants' gender, smoking status, employment status, the internet connection tool and the purpose of using it has been identified. The frequency of the avaluated students’ internet addiction was understood to be low.