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

Table 4 A comparison of the students’ opinions about the usage of social networking sites for education across age groups using the Kruskal Wallis test (N = 1722)

Statement	Mean rank				Chi-square	p-value
Statement	18–20 years	21–23 years	24–27 years	Above 27 years	Chi-square	p-value
S1	924	751	723	1167	60.85	0.00*
S2	867	846	832	875	1.16	0.76
S3	889	815	765	*896*	12.67	0.01**
S4	862	861	809	860	1.07	0.79
S5	848	864	922	759	2.95	0.40
S6	885	821	753	*980*	13.92	0.00*
S7	844	877	863	964	2.78	0.43
S8	849	881	800	925	3.73	0.29
S9	845	876	863	857	1.73	0.63
S10	858	859	827	857	0.43	0.94
S11	842	885	851	809	3.50	0.32
S12	854	850	865	951	0.86	0.84
S13	854	845	922	893	2.46	0.48
S14	854	854	887	853	0.47	0.93
S15	848	861	901	954	2.14	0.54
S16	870	839	780	939	4.83	0.19
S17	873	835	761	920	7.17	0.07
S18	863	838	855	925	1.51	0.68
S19	*884*	810	827	795	9.55	0.02**
S20	873	832	826	630	6.52	0.09

Here grouping variable is age group, * and ** represent the level of significance at 1% and 5%, respectively

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