ABSTRACT
This
work is on use of mobile phones by pharmacy students in Nigeria universities
with pharmacy department University of Benin as a case study. The process of
data collection for study was guided by the five objectives formulated for the
study. The objectives are to find out whether pharmacy department university of
Benin student spend time in making calls; To determine the reasons for using
mobile phones by students of pharmacy department university of Benin; To
ascertain the roles of mobile in students academic.
Programmes;
To know whether the use of mobile phones do satisfy students information need;
To identify and highlight the problems of students use of mobile phones and
proffer workable solution.
The
survey research design was adopted while carrying out the study with the
questionnaire used as instrument for data collection. In presenting and
analyzing the data, frequency percentage tables were used.
The
findings of the study revealed that pharmacy department university of Benin
students spends time in making calls. The study also revealed that students of
pharmacy university of Benin have reasons of using mobile phones.
According
to findings mobile phones help pharmacy student in university of Benin in their
academic programmes.
It
also revealed that students of pharmacy department university of Benin are
satisfy with the information needs of mobile phone. But there are still some
problems hindering student use of mobile phone and there are high cost of
recharging and poor network services of mobile services operators.
The
study therefore recommends that in line with the objectives of the study in
order to ensure effective utilization of mobile phone by pharmacy student
university of Benin.
GSM
service provider should as a matter of necessity expand their network base to
the immediate environment of our tertiary institution to reduce the rate of
call interferance.
The
use of mobile phone should be encourage in the academic environment as it
facilitate information retrieval processes.
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