Abstract: This study investigated the use of social media in sharing health related information amongst students of health schools in Minna. The study used survey questionnaire to collect data from simple random samples of 344 respondents. The response rate was 100%. Findings revealed that Facebook (79.9%), WhatsApp (65.5%) and Twitter (34.3%) were the most used social media site for communication. Also, the research study revealed that (79.8 %) of the student respondents benefitted greatly from using social media in disseminating health related information and they preferred these health information communicated to them via video, audio, and mobile phone text format. Finally, the research revealed that poor network coverage, high cost of data subscription, high cost of smart phones and epileptic power supply affects the level of access of students in health schools in Minna to social media. The study recommended that lecturers, students, researchers and health care instructors are strongly advised to disseminate health related information to students using social media tools based on its effectiveness.
Key Words: social media, health information, information dissemination, social network, smart phones, data subscription, epileptic power, network coverage, health communication, internet access
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