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Usos de internet y factores asociados en adolescentes de la Comunidad de Madrid

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Sánchez-Martínez, Mercedes, Otero Puime, Ángel·2010·Atención Primaria
DOI 10.1016/j.aprim.2009.05.004PMC PMC7022101
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Objective To determine the type of Internet use carried out by adolescent schoolchildren and identify factors associated with high use.Design Descriptive, cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire.Setting Secondary and High School Education Centres of the Autonomous Community of Madrid (rural and urban areas).Participants Third and fourth year Secondary and 1st and 2nd year High School pupils from 9 centres. A total of 1328 of the 1330 pupils present in the classrooms during the school term January-April 2007.Principal measurements Dependent variable: intensity of Internet use: very high, high, medium, low and none. Information on socioeconomic variables, smoking, drugs and drinking habits, mental health, academic failure and use of mobile telephone. An analysis was made using a two-step logical regression.Results The mean age of the sample was 15 years, with an equal number of males and females. A total of 93.1% used the Internet, of which 5.3% (95% CI: 4-6.5%) had a very high use, 16.7% (95% CI: 14.5-18.6%) high use, 71.1% (95% CI: 68.2-73.2%) low to medium use, and 6.9% (95% CI: 5.6-8.4%), did not use it. Very high use of the Internet is associated with the male sex (OR=4.28;95% CI:2.37-7.72), being 16 years or over (OR=2.14;95% CI:1.23-3.72) and is dependent on the mobile phone (OR=5.19;95% CI: 2.97-9.08). An association with alcohol consumption was observed in the high use group (OR=1.89; 95% CI:1,35-2,65). Academic failure is more common among those who do not use the Internet (OR=1.61; 95% CI:1.02-2.55).Conclusions Given the relationship found between high Internet use and mental health problems and bad habits, it is important to perfect standardised tools to detect and evaluate the compulsive use of the Internet as well as aid to its responsible use.

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  • Sánchez-Martínez and Otero Puime showed that high internet surfing frequency and no internet use were both associated with academic failure.

    “Sánchez-Martínez and Otero Puime 61 showed that high internet surfing frequency and no internet use were both associated with academic failure.”

    From Association Between Screen Media Use and Academic Performance Among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2019) · cites this paper as [61]

    The 'Variables asociadas' section reports an association between academic failure and very high internet use in the bivariate analysis, and between academic failure and no internet use in the adjusted analysis. The discussion explicitly says this study found no association between academic failure and the high-use group, so the claim conflates high with very high use and omits the difference between analyses. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  • Most studies showed an inverse association between internet overuse and academic performance, although they did not consider the device used or the purpose of internet use.

    “Most studies showed an inverse association between internet overuse and academic performance, although they did not consider the device used (ie, computer, smartphone, or tablet) or the purpose of internet use.25,26,31,61”

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    The Results section reports an association between very high internet use and school failure in the bivariate analysis. But the paper’s discussion says that high use was not associated with school failure after adjustment; instead, non-use was associated with school failure. Table 2 also records purposes of internet use, though the reported school-failure analysis does not distinguish use by purpose or device. This single study cannot establish what most studies found. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Authors
Sánchez-Martínez, M., & Otero Puime, Á.
Affiliations
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ES)
Corresponding author
Sánchez-Martínez, Mercedes
Venue
Atención Primaria
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-02
Volume
42
Issue
2
Pages
79-85
ISSN
0212-6567 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.aprim.2009.05.004
PMC
PMC7022101
OpenAlex
W1986558618
Cited by
35
References
21
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FWCI
3.25
Type
journal article
Language
es
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Locations
  • Atención Primaria (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Health and Behaviors
Keywords
adolescent internet use, mobile phone dependence, alcohol consumption, tobacco use, mental health, school failure, socioeconomic factors, sex differences, high school students, Comunidad de Madrid, health risk factors, social media use, online games, online shopping, online dating, online pornography, online gambling, online harassment, online safety
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Spain, Internet, Young Adult

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