The educational use of social networking sites among medical and health sciences students: a cross campus interventional study

Dash, Nihar Ranjan; Hasswan, Ahmed Alrazzak; Dias, Jacqueline Maria; Abdullah, Natasya; Eladl, Mohamed Ahmed; Khalaf, Khaled; Farooq, Ajmal; Guraya, Salman Yousuf

doi:10.1186/s12909-022-03569-3

Table 3 A comparison of students’ responses about the usage of social networking sites for education across years of schooling using the Kruskal Wallis test (N = 1722)

From: The educational use of social networking sites among medical and health sciences students: a cross campus interventional study

Statement	Mean rank							Chi-square	p-value
Statement	FY	Y1	Y2	Y3	Y4	Y5	Y6	Chi-square	p-value
S1	*1098*	809	833	719	835	717	733	141.66	0.00*
S2	887	859	*905*	897	800	789	775	13.72	0.03**
S3	*927*	898	855	836	818	768	688	23.68	0.00*
S4	*923*	822	873	876	800	771	829	15.88	0.01**
S5	890	820	881	865	832	774	881	8.43	0.21
S6	*972*	821	871	827	818	758	691	44.12	0.00*
S7	834	846	886	813	909	932	844	10.84	0.09
S8	855	820	886	820	889	*971*	820	13.16	0.04**
S9	803	839	913	817	902	916	934	18.83	0.00*
S10	835	879	878	820	898	881	822	6.73	0.35
S11	827	845	878	844	893	931	827	7.28	0.30
S12	849	827	885	816	881	942	832	10.05	0.12
S13	853	853	857	787	895	*995*	882	17.90	0.01**
S14	849	859	862	815	872	964	859	8.54	0.20
S15	839	833	883	802	915	*921*	920	13.74	0.03**
S16	*938*	850	854	790	834	817	873	19.69	0.00*
S17	*919*	829	866	791	856	879	800	16.33	0.01**
S18	864	839	885	801	870	920	851	8.69	0.19
S19	*937*	815	890	766	807	882	913	29.72	0.00*
S20	883	*885*	882	852	748	834	828	14.06	0.03**

Here grouping variable is age group, * and ** represents the level of significance at 1% and 5%, respectively
FY Foundation year, Y Year
S1. How often do you use e-mail for sharing information for educational purpose?
S2. How often do you use social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Linkedin, Wechat and Flickr) to keep in touch with peers and tutors?
S3. How often do you use social networking sites (i.e., Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Linkedin, and Flickr) to share education-related information?
S4. How often do you use social networking sites (i.e., Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Linkedin, and Flickr) for sharing research, innovations in medicine, and updates in medical field?
S5. How often do you read blogs or Wikis for education related information?
S6. How often do you contribute to blogs or Wikis to share information, or for dissemination of knowledge?
S7. Social networking sites help me in collation of educational materials
S8. Social networking sites are helpful in collaborative and peer-to-peer learning
S9. Social networking sites are useful in developing reading and writing web skills
S10. Social networking sites provide opportunity of virtual meeting with other students and tutors
S11. Social networking sites help me to communicate with peers about class projects
S12. Social networking sites help me to access educational resources
S13. Social networking sites help me to retrieve educational references for research
S14. Social networking sites facilitate my professional development of learning skills in technology
S15. Social networking sites are useful in communicating with classmates about course-related topics
S16. I have found social networking sites useful during the pre-exam period when I get an instant answer/explanation from my peer, instead of going through the books
S17. I have found social networking sites useful for sharing notes and lectures
S18. I have found social networking sites useful for educational purposes
S19. Medical students need supervision and guidance for the appropriate use of social networking sites for educational purposes
S20. I believe that social networking sites are inappropriate for sharing classroom materials, information, and discussing healthcare related topics

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