Journal of Addiction and DependenceJournal of Addiction and DependenceJournal of Addiction and DependenceJournal of Addiction and Dependence2471-061XOmmega Online PublishersNew Jersey, USA168610.15436/2471-061X.17.1686Research ArticleThe school-level factors associated with internet addiction among adolescents: A Cross-Sectional study in BangladeshThe school-level factors associated with internet addiction among adolescents: A Cross-Sectional study in BangladeshAhmedHossainDepartment of Public Health North South University BangladeshEditor* E-mail: ahmed.hossain@utoronto.ca
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20170612201732JAD-17-RA-168613092017201120172017Creative Commons Attribution LicenseThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. nbsp Objectives The adolescents have increased the use of the Internet not ably over the last few years Here we investigate the prevalence of Internet addiction among adolescents and identify the school-level factors on Internet addiction Materials and Methods This was a school-based cross-sectional study with 279 students aged 14 - 17 years in the education year of 2016 The students Internet addiction was determined through the Ormans test which consists of nine questions Results The prevalence of severe internet addiction among the surveyed adolescents was 2 51 and moderate internet addiction was 64 87 The study revealed from the multivariate logistic model that the male students are 31 OR 0 69 confidence interval 0 36 - 1 34 less likely to be moderate severely internet addicted compared to female students Similarly considering the number of siblings lonely child in a house is 3 12 times OR 3 12 CI 1 14 - 9 29 more likely to have moderate severe internet addiction compared to who has 3 or more siblings The students with English medium studies OR 0 58 and the students who play out door games OR 0 56 are also negatively associated with severe internet addiction Conclusion The results indicate that the adolescents of grade nine students Bangla medium studies and the students who don rsquo t play outside games are more prone to be the Internet addicted Besides female students are more in risk to be Internet addicted than male students The findings will help us for strategies to be put in the school to reduce the Internet addiction among adolescents 10