Research Article
The Internet Use for Health Information Seeking among Ghanaian University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 2
Internet access and use by students.
| Variable | Categories | Frequency () | Percent |
| Use of Internet | Yes | 645 | 100.0 | No | 0 | 0.0 |
| Years of Internet use | <1 | 8 | 1.2 | 1–4 | 126 | 19.4 | 5–9 | 315 | 48.5 | ≥10 | 186 | 28.6 | Missing | 16 | 2.3 |
| Use of Internet everyday | Yes | 509 | 78.3 | No | 136 | 20.9 | Missing | 5 | .8 |
| Hours of daily use Internet | 1–3 | 244 | 37.5 | 4–7 | 217 | 33.4 | 8–10 | 86 | 13.2 | >10 | 60 | 9.2 | Missing | 43 | 6.6 | Mean | 5.41 | SD | 3.28 |
| Type of Internet | Mobile data | 268 | 41.2 | Campus WiFi | 195 | 30.0 | LAN | 33 | 5.1 | All | 149 | 22.2 | Missing | 5 | .8 |
| Place of primary Internet access | Campus labs and WiFi | 294 | 45.2 | Halls and hostels | 229 | 35.2 | Home | 107 | 16.5 | Missing | 20 | 3.1 |
| Level of experience | Very experienced | 251 | 38.6 | Fairly experienced | 364 | 56.0 | Not experienced | 22 | 3.4 | Missing | 13 | 2.0 |
| Barriers to Internet use | Unreliable and slow connection | 351 | 54.0 | High cost of internet and devices | 97 | 14.9 | Congestion at ICT centres | 39 | 6.0 | Unreliable power supply | 36 | 5.5 | Viruses and malware | 51 | 7.8 | No challenge | 71 | 10.9 | Missing | 5 | .8 |
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