| Autor: |
Oliveira AP; Health School, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, 7300-555 Portalegre, Portugal.; Faculty of Nursing, University of Rovira e Virgili, 43003 Tarragona, Spain., Nobre JR; Health School, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, 7300-555 Portalegre, Portugal.; Faculty of Nursing, University of Rovira e Virgili, 43003 Tarragona, Spain., Luis H; Health School, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, 7300-555 Portalegre, Portugal.; Unidade de Investigação em Ciências Orais e Biomédicas (UICOB), Faculdade de Medicina Dentária, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Teresa Ambrósio, 1600-277 Lisbon, Portugal.; Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (ciTechcare), Polytechnic of Leiria, 2410-541 Leiria, Portugal., Luis LS; Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (ciTechcare), Polytechnic of Leiria, 2410-541 Leiria, Portugal.; School of Health Sciences, Polytechnic of Leiria, 2410-541 Leiria, Portugal., Pinho LG; Nursing School, University of Évora, 7000-811 Évora, Portugal.; Comprehensive Health Research Center, 7002-554 Évora, Portugal., Albacar-Riobóo N; Faculty of Nursing, University of Rovira e Virgili, 43003 Tarragona, Spain., Sequeira C; Nursing School of Porto, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.; Group Inovation and Development in Nursing (NursID), Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde (CINTESIS), 4200-450 Porto, Portugal. |
| Abstrakt: |
The use of social media was one of the most common way to keep in touch with friends and family during confinement. For higher education students, the fact that their universities were closed was a major change in their lives. The aim of this study is to relate the prevalence and type of social media with Internet addiction and mental health of university students in a district of Portugal during COVID-19 confinement. Mental health was studied by applying the reduced version of the Mental Health Inventory (MHI-5) and to measure the Internet use and dependence, the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) was used. The study (cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational) used an online questionnaire, conducted on Google ® Forms and the link was sent to 4450 students, in the months of April to June 2020, during the confinement. A total of 329 valid questionnaires were obtained. We can conclude that regarding mental health, students in the 18-24 age group, single or divorced and who are not in a relationship, and with worse academic results, show worse levels of mental health. It is noteworthy that the students with the same characteristics also have the highest levels of addiction to internet. |
