A Study on Social Media Usage and Its Influence on the Mental Health of Undergraduate Medical Students

Background * Social media has become an integral part of student life. Medical students, who often face high levels of academic stress, are particularly vulnerable to mental health issues. This study investigates the influence of social media usage on the mental well-being of undergraduate medical students. Methods * 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th year MBBS students and interns of ACSR Government Medical College, Nellore were included in present study. A Semi-structure Questionnaires were distributed among the students.Among 875 students from 1st year to 4th year along with interns 380 will be selected by simple random sampling. Results * Data was collected using Google Questionnaires ,Then data was imported to MS Exel, Then data was analysed using spss version 26. In 380 students 97.1% of students use social media and the most commonly used social media platform is Instagram [75.9%].sleep distrubance has been always noted due to late night mobile usage is observed always in 5.3% of students. 54% of students feel addicted to social media. 34.8% feel anxious after using social media. Conclusion * It was concluded that Relation between age with mental health status with social media usage is statistically significant and social media addiction with mental health is highly significant.