Association of social media addiction with insomnia among university students.

Abstract

Objective: To determine the frequency of social media addiction and insomnia among university students and to find out the association between these two variables. Study Design: Cross-sectional Survey. Setting: Universities of Twin Cities of Pakistan i.e. Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Period: February 2021 to July 2021. Material & Methods: The survey was initiated after taking approval from Institutional Review Board and Ethical Committee of Shifa International Hospital, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University Islamabad, Pakistan. On the basis of inclusion criteria 451 young healthy participants of both genders were selected by using non-probability convenient sampling technique. Participants who were taking sleeping pills, had medical or surgical problems and with history of diagnosed mental disorders were excluded from the study. A self-structured questionnaire was used to obtain the demographic data. The frequency of social media addiction and insomnia was assessed using the Social Media Addiction-Student Form (SMA-SF) and the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) respectively. For data analysis IBM SPSS Statistics version-22 was used. Results: The mean age of participants was 21.55±1.55 (years). Among 451 participants majority 252 (55.9%) exhibited mild social media addiction and 152 (33.7%) participants exhibited sub-threshold insomnia. The P-value of <0.05 indicates that there is a significant association between social media addiction and insomnia. Conclusion: The findings of the study concluded that social media addiction and insomnia was common among university students and significant association was found between social media addiction and insomnia.