Relación entre el uso problemático de las TIC el uso de sustancias y su impacto en la salud mental en estudiantes de bachillerato de la ciudad de Quito, en el año electivo 2015- 2016

Abstract

This research is exploratory, descriptive and transversal. It aims to establish the relationship between the use of ICT problematic use of psychoactive substances and their impact on mental health in students of first and second years of high school zones 9 and 8; Districts 6, 9, 4; and circuits 6, 5 and 17D 04 Downtown Quito, in the school year 2015- 2016. We worked with a sample of 150 students aged between 14 and 17 years of age, equally distributed across the three types of educational institutions: Tax , Fiscomisional and particular; who underwent a battery of eight questionnaires was applied. The results show that there is no problematic use of ICT, or psychoactive substances in the study population, while non-cognitive, behavioral or physiological changes that demonstrate a problem in the mental health of students surveyed are detected. It is recognized that social support could be a significant element for the existence of these findings.