Effect of Facebook on the life of Medical University students

International Archives of Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Farooqi, Hassan ^a   Patel, Hamza ^a   Aslam, Hafiz Muhammad ^b   Ansari, Iqra Qamar ^a   Khan, Mariya ^a   Iqbal, Noureen ^a   Rasheed, Hira ^a   Jabbar, Qamar ^a   Khan, Saqib Raza ^a   Khalid, Barira ^a   Nadeem, Anum ^a   Afroz, Raunaq ^a   Shafiq, Sara ^a   Mustafa, Arwa ^a   Asad, Nazia ^a  

^a DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Addiction; Depression; Headache

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOOD CHANGE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LIFE; SOCIAL NETWORK; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

EID: 84885500673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17557682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1755-7682-6-40     Document Type: Article

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