Prevalencia de adicción a las tecnologías de la información y comunicación y trastornos de la personalidad en estudiantes de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Universidad de Cuenca, 2013

Abstract

Introduction: information technology and communication (ICT) have generated social and cultural changes, generating pathologies associated with personality disorders

Objective: To determine the prevalence of addiction to ICTs and their association with personality disorders.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study of prevalence among students of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cuenca, the sample was 369 students. To determine ICT addiction to diagnosing personality disorders were used DSM-IV criteria, to determine the association between ICT addiction and personality disorders were developed crosstabs, results and relative frequencies as statistics the prevalence ratio (PR) with a confidence interval of 95%.

Results: The mean age 20.98 years, the prevalence of addiction to ICTs 46.3% and personality disorders 53.7%, the most prevalent disorder was the paranoid 11.3% population ICT addicted to 2.42 (95% CI 1.95 to 3.01) times more likely to be associated with personality disorders.

Conclusions: Students of the Faculty of Medical Sciences prevalence of addiction to ICTs is high and the prevalence of personality disorders is greater in the group with ICT addiction.

DeCS: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY-METHODS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE-EPIDEMIOLOGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES-UTILIZATION; PERSONALITY DISORDERS-PSYCHOLOGY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS-EPIDEMIOLOGY ADULT; STUDENTS, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS- STATISTICS & NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSIDAD DE CUENCA; CUENCA-ECUADOR