Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Perceived Effect of Social Media Usage on Mental Health among Adolescents

This study was conducted to find correlation between Knowledge regarding Social Media usage on Mental Health among Adolescent, Attitude regarding Social Media usage on Mental Health among Adolescent and Perceived Effect regarding Social Media usage on Mental Health among Adolescent. The research design used in the study was Descriptive Research Design. The subject selected for the study were 438 Adolescent boys and girls aged 10-19 years studying in 7th to 9th standard. The study participants were selected by total enumerative sampling technique. The data was collected after receiving the permission from institutional committee of Holy Family Hospital. The tool used were structured questionnaire and 5 point Likert scale. The data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The major findings showed among the samples of 438 students, 231 (52.75%) had good Knowledge, 134 (30.59%) had average Knowledge, 73 (16.66%) had poor Knowledge. The Attitude was also assessed and results showed that 74.88% had favourable Attitude, 23.55% had neutral Attitude and 1.59% had unfavourable Attitude. The data revealed that ?r? value is 0.215 and ?p? value is 0.09 which shows weak but positive correlation between the Knowledge and Attitude regarding Social Media usage on Mental Health among Adolescents. Study finding shows that measures are needed to be taken to improve the Knowledge of Social Media usage on Mental Health among Adolescents.