A Study to Assess the Internet Addiction and Loneliness Among Health Science Students in Kg College of Health Sciences, Coimbatore

Background of the Study: With the growing digitalization of the whole world, importance of internet is increasing in everyday life Day by day people are using various online resources each day which made it difficult to imagine life without internet access.Inaddition to communication as prime purpose, it also facilitate recreation by games, internet banking, finding location, preparing presentation, text mailing, music and many more. One can get enormous amount of information available online that can satisfy one’s curiosity for wisdom and knowledge in all areas.  Objectives: The primary aim of the study is to assess the internet addiction and loneliness Among Health science students.  Methods: A descriptive study was conducted in KG College of Health science students, to assess the internet addiction and loneliness in Coimbatore. A total of 50 samples were selected. by using simple random sampling technique, 15 samplesfrom GNM, 15 samplesfrom Physiotherapy, 20 samples from Allied health science students. Demographic variables were collected by using demographic proforma. Young’s internet addiction scale and UCLA loneliness scale was used to collect data. The results shows that the distribution of level of internet addiction 42(84%) belongs to mild internet addiction 8(16%) belongs to moderate internet addiction and distribution of loneliness Among health science students that shows 7(14%) belongs to little loneliness 37(74%) belongs to moderate loneliness 6(12%) belongs to high level of loneliness.