Mostafa Langarizadeh|Majid Naghipour|Seyed Mohsen Tabatabaei|Abbas Mirzaei|Mohammad Eslami Vaghar
Prediction of internet addiction based on information literacy among students of Iran University of Medical Sciences
Iran University of Medical Sciences|Iran University of Medical Sciences|Iran University of Medical Sciences|Iran University of Medical Sciences|Tehran University of Medical Sciences|Islamic Azad University Medical Branch of Tehran
considerable group internet users consists university users however despite internet benefits capabilities internet overuse threat societies especially young people studentsthe objective study determine predictive role information literacy internet addiction among students iran university medical sciences 2016this analytical crosssectional study conducted iran university medical sciences 2016 using stratified random sampling method 365 students different disciplines selected measuring tools included information literacy questionnaire yang online drug addiction scale general health questionnaire collected data analyzed pearson productmoment correlation independent samples ttest multiple linear regression using spss version 22according study 312 students internet addiction 299 mildly addicted 13 severe addiction significant inverse relationship higher information literacy internet addiction r 045 p0001 predictor variable information literacy explained 20 variation outcome variable internet addictionstudents play substantial role promoting cultural scientific level knowledge society higher information literacy lower level internet addiction consequently general health society improve seems wise planning authorities irans universities prevent internet addiction increase information literacy among students needed