Attitude of Nursing Students, Faculty of Nursing, Buriram, Western University on Using Social Network of Smartphone

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to study the attitudes of nursing students. Faculty of Nursing, Buriram, Western University towards the use of social media through smartphones It is a mixed quantitative research. and qualitative The interview form and questionnaire developed by the research team were used with a content validity of 0.93 and a reliability value of 0.79. The sample consisted of 179 nursing students from Buriram Faculty of Nursing, Western University, year 1-4 of the academic year 2018. People consisted of 2 steps: Step 1: Studying the attitudes of nursing students towards using social media via smartphones. With a questionnaire of 179 people, step 2, focus group discussion in representatives of a sample of 30 people, using a simple random sampling method. The quantitative data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and presented the percentage, mean, part. standard deviation The qualitative data part uses content analysis with Content Analysis.

The results of this research found that The overall attitude of nursing students towards the use of social media via smartphones was at a moderate level ( = 3.36, S.D.= 0.98). and the result revealed that the average score including affective, knowledge and behavior were quite good level ( = 3.70, 3.19 and 3.16, S.D.= 0.99, 0.98 and 0.98), respectively. For this reason, to used social media that was for study, relaxation, community and selling products via social media. The social media was important in daily life because must use to communication, education, news, relationship, trendsetter and decision. This finding the guideline to promote using behavior social network of smartphone including: 1) Should use the social media with consciousness; 2) allocate time; and 3) use proper language such as posting messages or comments appropriately. Their fore should be encouraged students to learn the correct use of social media via smartphone.