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Impact of social media on the academic performance of undergraduate medical students

Abstract

Background

Social media has become an integral part in the life of every individual in the 21st century. Social media addiction in the younger age group is a major problem. The objective of this study was to find a correlation between academic performance and social media use.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional questionnaire-based study conducted in a medical school over a period of 3 months (Nov 2018–Jan 2019), where 400 medical undergraduates who use social media participated in the study. Data collected from the questionnaire included the academic performance in terms of university examination marks, the duration of social media use per day and the social media addiction score. Data correlation was done using the Pearson’s correlation factor.

Results

41.5% of students used social media for upto 3 h per day. Whatsapp (98.25%) and Youtube (91.75%) were the most commonly used social media applications. 73.5% used social media to read health-related news, 71.5% used it to complete assignments and more than 50% used it for seminar preparation, test preparation and research-related purposes. Academic performance of female students was better than male students. There was a signifi

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Ad AertsenProfessor of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of FreiburgVerified email at biologie.uni-freiburg.de
Stefan RotterProfessor of Computational Neuroscience, Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of FreiburgVerified email at bio.uni-freiburg.de
Jyotika BahugunaUniversity of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, FranceVerified email at unistra.fr
GUSTAVO DECOUniversity Pompeu Fabra - Center for Brain and Cognition - ICREAVerified email at upf.edu
Yves FregnacCNRS Research Director and Professor at PolytechniqueVerified email at unic.cnrs-gif.fr
Ulrich EgertUniv. FreiburgVerified email at imtek.uni-freiburg.de
Jens KremkowNeuroscience Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, GermanyVerified email at charite.de
Antje KiliasPhD student, Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of FreiburgVerified email at physiologie.uni-freiburg.de
Carola Anneliese HaasProfessor für Exp. Epileptologie, Universitiy of FreiburgVerified email at uniklinik-freibu
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B. PrasadProfessor, Subdivision of Drug Engineering, Amerind institute trap Technology Roorkee, Roorkee (UK) INDIAVerified telecommunicate at iitr.ac.in
Faizal BuxProfessor, Director: Institute go for Water swallow Wastewater Bailiwick, Durban Academia of TechnologyVerified email rest dut.ac.za
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Dr. Vishal Kumar SandhwarAssistant Academician, Department line of attack Chemical Application, Parul Institution of higher education, VadodaraVerified email at paruluniversity.ac.in