Benefits of Accessing Health Information on Social Media among Female Students: A Study in a Nigerian Public University

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Oberiri Destiny Apuke
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Sarah Gambo
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The importance of social networking sites can never be over emphasized as it has been put to diverse use by different people and groups for different purposes.It is as a result that the researchersinvestigate the use of social networking among the female students of Taraba state University and how best it has been used to access and diffuse information on health related matters.A quantitative approach was employed with the help of questionnaires administered to the female students in Faculty of Arts And Social Sciences of the Taraba State University, which has the largest population of all other Faculties. The questionnairewas designed and divided into three sections, encompassing section ‘A’Demography, section ‘B’ research questions and section ‘C’ Likert scale questions. Results revealed that Facebook is the most commonest of all the social networking sites used by Taraba State University female students in accessing information on health related issues.

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Oberiri Destiny Apuke. 2017. \u201cBenefits of Accessing Health Information on Social Media among Female Students: A Study in a Nigerian Public University\u201d. Global Journal of Human-Social Science - A: Arts & Humanities GJHSS-A Volume 17 (GJHSS Volume 17 Issue A1): .

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The importance of social networking sites can never be over emphasized as it has been put to diverse use by different people and groups for different purposes.It is as a result that the researchersinvestigate the use of social networking among the female students of Taraba state University and how best it has been used to access and diffuse information on health related matters.A quantitative approach was employed with the help of questionnaires administered to the female students in Faculty of Arts And Social Sciences of the Taraba State University, which has the largest population of all other Faculties. The questionnairewas designed and divided into three sections, encompassing section ‘A’Demography, section ‘B’ research questions and section ‘C’ Likert scale questions. Results revealed that Facebook is the most commonest of all the social networking sites used by Taraba State University female students in accessing information on health related issues.

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