The prevalance of internet addiction in eight grade students in canakkale

Ertekin Y. H., Uludağ A., Tekin M., Cevizci S., Şahin E. M.

20th Wonca Europe Conference 2015, İstanbul, Türkiye, 22 - 25 Ekim 2015, cilt.19, ss.1615

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 19
  • Basıldığı Şehir: İstanbul
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1615
  • Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The prevalence of internet addiction in eight-grade students in Canakkale, Turkey

Yusuf Haydar Ertekin1, Aysegul Uludag1, Murat Tekin1, Sibel Cevizci2, Erkan Melih Sahin1

1Department of Family Medicine, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale, Turkey

2Department of Public Health, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey

AIM

We aimed to investigate the prevalence of internet addiction in last grade students in secondary schools.

METHOD

Three of the secondary school located in the center of Çanakkale were selected by cluster sampling method. The

study was carried out with all last grade secondary school students in the sample. Turkish version of Young's

Internet Addiction Scale(YAS) was administered to students. Addiction levels was classified as "non-addiction",

"possible addiction" and "addiction".

RESULTS are in Table 1.

CONCLUSION

Internet addiction of students in the eighth grade is not as high as expected. We suspect that internet addiction

was to be shifted to smartphone addiction which can access to the internet.

Keywords: Internet Addiction, Prevalence, Adolescent

Table 1. Internet addiction prevalence

Male (n= 137) Female (n= 120) Total (n=257) p

Average age 13 ± 1 13 ± 1 13 ± 1

YAS score 29.3 ± 20 26.5 ± 17 28 ± 19 0.255

ADDICTION LEVEL

.............1. Non-addiction 82% (n=113) 91% (n=109) 86% (n=222) 0.068

.....2. Possible addiction 17% (n=23) 8% (n=10) 13% (n=33) 0.061

.....................3. Addiction 1% (n=1) 1% (n=1) 1% (n=2)