Internet Addiction Among Students of Health Faculties in Jazan University, Ksa.

Aim: To determine the extent of internet addiction among students of health faculties in Jazan University and its effects on their academic performance and social relationships. Method: This study reports the results of surveyinvolved 400 students (198 males 202 females) from 4 health faculties in Jazan University to measure the prevalence of internet addiction among the students and its effects on the academic performance and social relationships. It is a cross sectional study in which a standardized self-administered questionnaire was used to classify the internet addiction into 4 levels according to the score of each student. Also some questions were asked about the academic performance and social relationships of the students. Results: Its found that males are more addicted to the internet than females although females stay home more than males and also we found that about 59% of the students have mild addiction to the internet but this could be considered normal because nowadays the access to the internet is much easier and available and makes life easier and things to be done faster and also mild addiction doesn’t have negative effects as moderate and severe addiction.