Association between Social Media Addiction and Mental Health Among International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Undergraduate Nursing Students

Introduction: Addiction to the social media could interfere with an individual’s daily life and have impact on their psychological well-being. The emergence of is seen many influences in students’ life, they tend neglect studies by spending more time media. Very few were conducted regard mental health Malaysia. Aim: To study association between addiction among nursing students. Material methods: A cross-sectional was 208 undergraduate students, IIUM Kuantan. questionnaire consists four sections; socio-demographic data, usage, addiction, distributed. data analysed using IBM Statistical Package Social Science (SPSS) version 22.0. Results: It found that most 54.3% (N=113) are slightly addicted media, 37.0% (N=77) them moderately addicted, 5.3% (N=11) highly 3.4% (N=7) no On average, students experienced severe depression anxiety same mean score for each 28.99 (9.637). They also had mild stress 8.47 (5.436). there (r = 0.448, p<0.05), p<0.05) 0.313, respectively. For sociodemographic, relationship age, gender, level CGPA. Conclusion: status. can a negative These findings seek initiation interventions better management improvement. serve as reference future researchers conduct related area.