Study on Prevalence of Whatsapp Addiction among Medical Students in a Private Medical College, Pondicherry

Rajini, S. Nirmala Sugirtha; Kannan, K. Senthamarai; Alli, P.; Tamilsevi, V

doi:10.5958/0976-5506.2018.00624.1

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“…In spite of knowing the harmful effect of whatsapp usage, 32.5% of them are using it and unable to control it. 21 It further gives a way to assess the correlation between psychological disorder and other medical disorder developed due to internet addiction which has not been done in this state to gain deeper and better insight into the issue so that this disorder can be tackled earlier and efficiently.…”

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Comparative evaluation of internet addiction amongst arts, commerce, engineering and medical students

Soni¹,

Alam²,

Joshi

et al. 2020

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: With the advancement of technology across the world web and information have been interlinked. Internet is one of the channels for communication at a large platform just with a click and scrolling by fingertip. It is an impulsive disorder, which does not involve use of an intoxicating drug. When need get converted to demand we get addicted. Addiction causes depression, anger, loneliness and other medical problems too. Considering its variable use among different professionals, present study has been conducted to assess the level of addiction among young professional students of Raipur Chhattisgarh.Methods: Ethical approval for this study (N– ADMIN/261-B/2019) was provided by the institutional ethical committee Raipur institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) Raipur on 11/07/2019. This was a cross-sectional observational study done in Raipur which included 160 (Purposive samples) students of 18-30 years from arts, commerce, engineering and medical colleges. The study duration was of two months (15 July 2019- 15 September 2019). Predesigned pretested structured questionnaire (Young’s internet addiction test) was done using multistage simple random sampling.Results: Prevalence of addiction is 65% (104/160). Mild, moderate and severe are 38% (62/160), 21.9% (35/160), 4.4% (07/160) respectively. Among severely addicted maximum 12.5% (05/160) belong to engineering stream.Conclusions: Male are more addicted than female and engineering streams are affected more severely.

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Comparative evaluation of internet addiction amongst arts, commerce, engineering and medical students

Soni¹,

Alam²,

Joshi

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Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…WhatsApp is a mobile instant messaging application that can deliver various formats of messages, including texts, images, audio, or videos, at any time, even if the users are offline or out of network coverage. Even when their devices are switched off when messages are sent, the users can still retrieve these messages when they turn on the device and open WhatsApp [ 27 , 28 ]; hence WhatsApp could be a tool to deliver health messages. Several studies have shown that healthy eating promotion programs delivered through WhatsApp can increase F&V consumption across different populations [ 29 , 30 , 31 ], but to date there is no evidence of its efficacy for special working groups such as firefighters.…”

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A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Feasibility Study of a WhatsApp-Delivered Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating Habits in Male Firefighters

NG¹,

Wong

Cheung

2021

IJERPH

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This cluster randomized controlled trial (CRCT)-designed study aimed to explore the feasibility of a promotion pamphlet and/or WhatsApp as a suitable mode of delivery to promote healthy eating habits with fruit and vegetables (F&V) among firefighters. Convenience and snowball sampling methods were used. Forty-five firefighters from 23 fire stations were recruited and they all received the printed pamphlet, while the intervention group participants (n = 20) received additional teaching material through WhatsApp every two weeks for eight weeks. Feasibility outcomes included retention, practicality, and implementation. The participants reported high levels of satisfaction with the intervention. There were significant improvements in the mean numbers of days consuming F&V (p = 0.002; p = 0.031) in the intervention group, and for fruit consumption (p = 0.033) in the control group between the baseline (T0) and 3 months after completion of intervention (T1). High levels of participants’ satisfaction with the intervention revealed that a full-scale CRCT of the WhatsApp-delivered intervention promoting healthy eating could be feasible, especially as a means of increasing the numbers of days they consumed F&V and the numbers of servings of these consumed per day.

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“…MIM applications penetrated deep into the way we communicate with each other in what Malka, Ariel, and Avidar (2015) have called a "unique combination of mass and interpersonal communication channels" (329). The intrusion in people's lives has been so dire that a great deal of research has been conducted regarding the link between the use of this app and new types of addictions and disorders (van den Eijnden et al 2016;Faye et al 2016;Rajini et al 2018). However, instead of working as a deterrent, the significant effect that WhatsApp has had seems to uniquely attract journalists.…”

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Reporting with WhatsApp: Mobile Chat Applications’ Impact on Journalistic Practices

Dodds

2019

Digital Journalism

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Since its release in August 2009, WhatsApp has played a key role in the fast development and expansion of the contemporary polymedia environment within which humans interact with each other. Those in the media, and journalists in particular, have taken to this platform to use it as a way to share and receive information as well as to maintain regular, and sometimes more private, contact with their sources. The goal of this paper is to examine the incentives that underlie journalists' decisions to turn to WhatsApp and the consequences that this mobile chat application has had on the newsmaking practices of reporters inside two Chilean newsrooms. Newsroom ethnography, including participant observation, is employed in this study to gain insight into journalists' routines and their everyday usage of WhatsApp. The conclusions of this article suggest that the utilization of WhatsApp has impacted the relationship between journalists and sources both on a personal and professional level. New perceptions of intimacy and trust, camaraderie and obtainability, and temporality are observed among the journalists who use this application. These observations carry important professional and ethical implications for journalists navigating today's media ecology, and show how technological and socioprofessional aspects are tightly interwoven.

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Study on Prevalence of Whatsapp Addiction among Medical Students in a Private Medical College, Pondicherry

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Comparative evaluation of internet addiction amongst arts, commerce, engineering and medical students

Comparative evaluation of internet addiction amongst arts, commerce, engineering and medical students

A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Feasibility Study of a WhatsApp-Delivered Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating Habits in Male Firefighters

Reporting with WhatsApp: Mobile Chat Applications’ Impact on Journalistic Practices

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