Social media plays a vital role in transforming student's life style. Aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of social media health program intervention on life style of secondary school students. Subject and methods: Research design: A quasi-experimental design was used in the current study. Setting: This study was conducted in two governmental secondary schools at Benha city (Om Elmomnen secondary school, and manshet benha secondary military school). Subject: A stratified cluster sample was used. 25% of students in 1st and 2nd grade from the mentioned setting, the total number of students were 80. Tools of data collection: two tools were used I- A structured interviewing questionnaire sheet: consisted of 3 parts to assess: 1) the socio-demographic characteristics of students, 2) background of student's social media usage, 3) knowledge of students regarding social media, II- It was designed to assess students' lifestyle . Results, the study showed 52.5%of students aged from 16 to < 17 years old with mean age 16.13±1.0. 56.2% of them were male and 78.7% of them living in urban area. Regarding background of student's social media usage 50% of them using Facebook, 57.5% using social networking sites for five hours and more, 46.3% using mobile to log on social media. As regard total knowledge of students regarding social media before the program implementation; 47% of them had poor total knowledge scores, while immediately after the program implementation 85 % of them had good total knowledge and 66.2% had good total knowledge after 3 months. Concerning total lifestyle score before the program implementation 17.5% had good total lifestyle score regarding social media, while immediately after the program implementation increased to 90% also increased to 91.2% after 3 months. Conclusion, the study concluded that: Educational health program has showed a highly statistically significant effect on knowledge and lifestyle of the students post program and improving their knowledge and lifestyle. Recommendations: The study recommended that, this program should be applied on a wide range of schools to prevent health and social risks of social media and parents should monitor activities of young people on social media to protect them from negative effects of social media. |
