The role of the social media in raising the level of health awareness among university youth : analytical descriptive study

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This study aims to analyze the role of the social media in raising the level of health awareness among university youth, the degree of source credibility of the social media in providing accurate and sufficient health information and which social media platforms raises the level of health information among them.

Using online questionnaire, the study was conducted on 255 University youth.

The study shows that the greater the degree of dependence on social media as a source of information, the higher the exposure to social media sites related to the health information, while the results showed that the degree of dependence on social media as a source of information and the credibility of social media sites related to the health information are not correlated.