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Nursing Problems / Problemy Pielęgniarstwa
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Original paper

Social media fatigue among nursing students. A nationwide cross-sectional study

Joanna Gotlib
1
,
Ilona Cieślak
1
,
Mariusz Panczyk
1
,
Beata Dobrowolska
2
,
Danuta Dyk
3
,
Aleksandra Gaworska-Krzemińska
4
,
Elżbieta Grochans
5
,
Maria Janina Kózka
6
,
Izabella Uchmanowicz
7
,
Mariusz Jaworski
1

  1. Department of Education and Research in Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
  2. Department of Holistic Care and Nursing Management, Medical University of Lublin, Poland
  3. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland
  4. Division of Nursing Management, Faculty of Health Sciences with the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland
  5. Chair and Department of Nursing, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland
  6. Department of Clinical Nursing, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
  7. Division of Internal Medicine Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
Nursing Problems 2022; 30 (1-2): 1-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ppiel.2022.119849
Online publish date: 2022/10/18
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Introduction
Social media fatigue is a concept used to refer to exhaustion due to the overuse of social media. Websites and social media profiles for nursing professionals are an important aspect of promoting the nursing profession and modern nursing practice.

Aim of the study
To assess the level of social media fatigue among undergraduate nursing students in Poland.

Material and methods
All undergraduate (3-year bachelor’s program) Polish nursing students were eligible for the study. Out of 679 study participants, first-year students (n = 397, 58.73%) and women (n = 589, 87.13%) were the largest groups. The Social Media Fatigue Scale (SMFS) was used as a research tool. A p-value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant in all analyses.

Results
The analysis showed that the surveyed nursing students showed an average level of social media fatigue (M = 51.81, SD = 15.59). The majority of the study participants felt overwhelmed by the amount of information available on social media (n = 137, 20.3%). The respondents admitted to feelings of anger when they realized that using social media took too much of their time (n = 163, 24.1%).

Conclusions
This original study showed that social media fatigue is a noticeable phenomenon among nursing students. In view of the risk of an increase in the level of perceived fatigue, it is advisable to provide adequate health education to improve the informational awareness of nursing students.

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social media fatigue, Social Media Fatigue Scale, nursing students
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