Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part B (2025)

Background of the Study: The ability to understand and manage their own emotions and develop communication skills is essential to provide quality patient care emotional intelligence in health care students is considered to be an great factor to be free from various addiction there by improving their quality of life. Technology improves the lives of people who can avoid being dominate by it and forced into debilitating addictions to it. Internet is a group of computer system connected from all around the world. The proper use of the internet can facilitate communication, access to information and knowledge and can therefore be beneficial for the development of people; however, its multifunctional nature can also cause negative behavior and great difficulty in setting limits for its use.

Objectives: The primary aim of the study is to assess the emotional intelligence and internet addiction among Health science students.

Methods: A descriptive study was conducted in KG College of Health science students, to assess the emotional intelligence and internet addiction in Coimbatore. A total of 40 samples were selected. By using stratified random sampling technique, 18 samples from II-year BSc (N), 07 samples from II-year Physiotherapy, 15 samples from II-year Allied health science students. Demographic variables were collected by using demographic proforma. Schutte emotional intelligence scale and Young’s internet addiction scale was used to collect data. The results shows that the distribution of emotional intelligence among health science students 8(20%) belongs to low emotional intelligence, 31(77.5%) belongs to moderate emotional intelligence, 1(2.5%) belongs to high level of emotional intelligence and distribution of internet addiction among health science students 11(27%) belongs to mild internet addiction, 22(55%) belongs to moderate internet addiction and 7 (18%) belongs to severe internet addiction.