Relación entre el uso problemático de las TIC, el consumo de sustancias y su impacto en la salud mental en los estudiantes de primero y segundo año de bachillerato de tres instituciones: fiscal, fiscomisional y Particular de la Zona 7, distrito 11D01, circuito 11D01C16_17, en la ciudad de Loja-Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract: In this research entitled: Relationship between the problematic use of TIC, substance use and its impact on mental health in the freshmen of students the first, second grate year of three institutions: Prosecutor Fiscomisional and Private Zone 7 11D01 district 11D01C16_17 circuit in the city of Loja, Ecuador. The overall objective was to analyze the distribution of substance, use of TIC and mental health indicators at national level in freshmen and sophomore year. The research design was descriptive and exploratory cross, this work was done in the city of Loja, Ecuador. In this research was used as data collection techniques a battery of psychological instruments, composed of 8 questionnaires allows us to measure the problematic use of TIC, substance abuse, social support and its impact on mental health. Generally speaking we find that there is a relationship between access and use TIC and psychological development. TIC use and drug use is not evidence.