Development and validation of the Lebanese Social Media Dependency Scale (LSMDS): A cross-sectional study among university students

• Samar Younes ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: samar.younes@liu.edu.lb

  Affiliations School of Pharmacy, Lebanese International University, Bekaa, Lebanon, INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Inserm U1094, IRD UMR270, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, EpiMaCT - Epidemiology of chronic diseases in tropical zone, Institute of Epidemiology and Global Health – Michel Dumas, OmegaHealth, Limoges, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0443-0326

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• Zeinab Abbas,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, Ministry of Public Health, Narcotics Department, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Chadia Haddad,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Inserm U1094, IRD UMR270, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, EpiMaCT - Epidemiology of chronic diseases in tropical zone, Institute of Epidemiology and Global Health – Michel Dumas, OmegaHealth, Limoges, France, Research Department, Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal-Eddib, Lebanon, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Fanar, Lebanon

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• Daniele Saade,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon

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• Nisreen Mourad,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Pharmacy, Lebanese International University, Bekaa, Lebanon, INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Inserm U1094, IRD UMR270, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, EpiMaCT - Epidemiology of chronic diseases in tropical zone, Institute of Epidemiology and Global Health – Michel Dumas, OmegaHealth, Limoges, France, IVPN-Network, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates

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• Hala Sacre,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Drug Information Center, Order of Pharmacists of Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6547-6251

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• Amal Al-Hajje,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lebanese University, Hadath, Lebanon

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• Pascale Salameh

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lebanese University, Hadath, Lebanon, School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4780-0772

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