Abstract
Internet addiction is defined as an obsessive disorder characterized by uncontrollable dependence on internet such that its stoppage can lead to severe emotional, physiological and psychological reactions.
ObjectiveTo determine prevalence of internet addiction among students. To check association between internet addiction with different years of medical education and to find out the association between internet addiction and different personality type.
Study design Cross sectional.
Study setting Gujranwala medical college Gujranwala.
Study subjects Students of Gujranwala medical College.
Sampling technique Simple Random Sampling by using random number generator.
Sample size(N=120).
Data collection 'Internet addiction questionnaire Young's.
Data analysis by using SPSS version 21 and frequency tables were constructed for quantitative variables and cross tabulation was done to find out the association between internet addiction with dfferent years of medical education and personality type at a P-value of 0.05.
Results Prevalence of internet addiction among medical students was 41.7%. Among years of medical education, 2nd and 3rd year students had more internet addiction as compared to others and type of personality type B person have more internet addiction than type A but the results of association were insignificant. Conclusion In five years of medical education, moderate internet addiction was found among the students where as high usage of internet was determined in second and third year students of medical education