Health science students’ use of social media for educational purposes: a sample from a medical university in Hanoi, Vietnam
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BACKGROUND: Using social media (SM) for educational purposes might improve academic performance. AIM: This paper aims to describe health science students' use of SM for educational purposes and its association with their academic performance. METHODS: Two hundred ninety-seven undergraduate health science students completed a self-administered questionnaire comprising 4 sections related to social media. RESULTS: Almost all students (99.7%) reported using SM for learning, most (90.9%) of them daily. The most preferred type of SM learning was Facebook. Most students thought that using SM for learning is convenient and useful. They suggested there should be 1 Facebook account for each subject, that every classmate could access to obtain knowledge from lecturers and to interact between students and lecturers. The logistic regression model showed that the more time students practiced following the advice on posted information, the more likely they were to achieve a GPA at distinction level or above (OR = 4.2; OR = 5.4, and OR = 9.4, respectively with times of practicing). Conversely, the students who used SM for learning less than once a month were less likely to obtain a GPA at distinction level (OR = 0.5). CONCLUSIONS: Almost all health science students used SM to support learning and use of SM for learning was associated with higher academic performance.
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Surveys at medical schools in Vietnam showed that over 99% of medical students use social media frequently, with 90% reporting daily use for learning purposes.
“Surveys conducted at medical schools in Vietnam showed that over 99% of medical students use SM frequently, with 90% reporting daily use for learning purposes (13, 14).”
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The Results (Pattern of SM use for educational purpose; page not provided) say that all but one student used social media, 90.9% used it daily, and all social-media users used it for learning. The 90.9% figure describes daily social-media use, not specifically daily use for learning. The survey was of health science students at one Hanoi medical university, rather than medical students across Vietnamese medical schools. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Bich Diep, P., Minh Phuong, V., Van Chinh, N., Thi Hong Diem, N., & Bao Giang, K.
- Affiliations
- School of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam
- Department of Hematology, Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam
- Doctor Labo Test Centre, Hanoi Medical Laboratory Diagnostic Joint Stock Company, Hanoi, Vietnam
- General Department of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health, Vietnam
- Venue
- Health Services Insights
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2021-01
- Volume
- 14
- Pages
- 11786329211013549-11786329211013549
- ISSN
- 1178-6329 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8114251
- OpenAlex
- W3157581907
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 23
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 1.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2022-04-07)
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Health Services Insights (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Educational Technology in Learning
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
- Keywords
- social media, health sciences students, medical education, academic performance, Facebook, student engagement, GPA, student-lecturer interaction, online learning
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