Internet addiction and depression, anxiety, and stress among undergraduate students in a public university in Malaysia during movement control order

Asokan, Thanendran Nair and Norlen, Nor Syasya Dayana and Zainuri, Nurul Afrina (2020) Internet addiction and depression, anxiety, and stress among undergraduate students in a public university in Malaysia during movement control order. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: The prevalence between internet addiction, depression, anxiety and stress among undergraduate students have been reported by previous studies. During the Movement Control Order period (MCO, CMCO and RMCO) in Malaysia, the prevalence of these factors are bound to rise due to increased availability to access the internet at home and also increased time to access the internet. However, there are no studies that have been done to investigate the association between internet addiction and depression, anxiety and stress among undergraduate students during the movement control order. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of internet addiction, depression, anxiety and stress among undergraduate students of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) during the movement control order. Materials and Method: A cross sectional study was conducted among undergraduate students of UPM using the convenient sampling method. An electronic version of self-administered questionnaires was used to send the questionnaires via Whatsapp. Multiple logistic regression was used to investigate the depression, anxiety and stress associated with the prevalence of internet addiction, adjusted by sociodemographic factors. Results: Out of 417 students, there were 118 students (28.30%) were ranked as internet addicted. There were 71 (17.00%), 114 (27.30%), and 20 (4.80%) students were considered depression, anxiety, and stress respectively. In multiple logistic regression, there were four significant factors associated with internet addiction, including other faculties (OR= 1.621, 95% CI: 1.030, 2.550, P=0.037), year of study for year three, year four and year five (OR= 0.557, 95% CI: 0.315, 0.985, P=0.044), anxiety category (OR= 1.963, 95% CI: 1.198, 3.218, P=0.007), and those who had stress (OR=4.617, 95% CI: 1.630, 13.081, P=0.004) were significantly associated with internet addiction. Conclusions: From this study, there were 28.30% of respondents found to be internet addicted, 17.00%, 27.30% and 4.80% of respondents are found to have depression, anxiety and stress respectively. Faculty, year of study, anxiety and stress were iii statistically significantly associated with internet addiction. Future studies are suggested to investigate the temporal association between internet addiction with depression, anxiety and stress.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Ms Norafizah Radzuan
Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2023 07:17
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2023 07:17
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1195

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