Influencia de las tic en el índice de masa corporal de los adolescentes en Cuenca, 2017

Abstract

Background: Currently, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are used daily by adolescents, becoming an essential element for life. This need to live with tic has led to the modification of lifestyles and, often the teenager devotes more time to mobile phones, television, computer and video games than to do physical activity. This way of living has been altering the Body Mass Index leads to suffer some diseases related to overweight and obesity. General Objective: to determine the influence of the use of Tic in the Body Mass Index of adolescents in the Victor Manuel Albornoz school, Cuenca 2017. Methodology and Universe: descriptive and cross-sectional. We will work with a finite universe of 100 adolescents from 10 to 15 years old who study at the Victor Manuel Albornoz School. The technique is the survey. The Spearman Rho Correlation Coefficient program was used. Results: the age of the participants is between 13 to 15 years old with 61% and they are women, the age of beginning of use of the internet and mobile phone was before 10 years with 69%. According to the Rho Correlation Coefficient of Spearman between BMI and use of ICT, 43% of adolescents are overweight and 10% are obese in the relationship between tic and BMI it has been found that the earlier they start to use the cell phone, the less daily physical activity they perform. Conclusions: through this study we have found that there is a relationship between the use of ICT and the Body Mass Index. because the higher the use of ICT for television, the computer, the internet and the cell phone, the higher the BMI value, which would indicate that the frequency of de use of ICT is directly associated whit overweight and obesity