| To estimate the prevalence of internet addiction and relationship with the personality traits in the medical students. A cross
sectional study using Youngs Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and Neo-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) was applied on 100
medical students under the age group of 21 to 23 years and appropriate statically test were applied to check the correlation.
65%, 22%, 1% is the prevalence of mild, moderate, and severe addiction in medical undergraduates respectively .Overall
88% of medical students were addicted to internet, among which 52% were females and 36% were males. And the
personality trait neuroticism is significantly correlated with internet addiction (P = 0.032). High prevalence of internet
addiction in medical undergraduates and Internet addiction is associated with personality trait neuroticismddd |
