Frecuencia del uso del internet y móvil en los adolescentes de las comunidades urbanas y rurales

Objective: to analyze the frequency of Internet and mobile use; Associate the use, hours before using the Internet and mobile in urban and rural communities. Method: quantitative approach of Non-experimental design, descriptive cross-sectional study. The study consisted of five schools from four cantons: Portoviejo, Santa Ana, 24 de Mayo and Junín from the province of Manabí, chosen randomly, 711 adolescents composed the sample, 383 (53.9%) men and 328 (46.2%) women, aged between 11 and 16 years (M = 13.16, DT = 1,078) of the eighth, ninth and tenth grades of General Basic Education of the Schools (GBE) of the public sector of the Urban community 424 (59.69%) and Rural community 287 (40.4%). The evaluation instruments used are: Self-made sociodemographic questionnaire of 46 items; Questionnaire on the problematic use of new technologies (Labrador, Becoña and Villadangos, 2008) of 50 items. Results: there is an association between the use of mobile phones and the urban and rural community related to the hours before contact, offline time, and feeling bad when not using the mobile phone. Conclusion: the frequency and association of the use are analyzed, hours before connecting to the Internet and mobile phones of the urban and rural community; adolescents have a greater preference for the mobile in the urban community than in the rural community; in relation to the Internet, a greater connection in the urban than the rural one; There is greater use of mobile phones than the Internet in the Urban community than the Rural community. Objetivo: analizar la frecuencia del uso de Internet y móvil; Asociar el uso, horas antes de conectarse al Internet y móvil en las comunidades urbanas y rurales. Método: enfoque cuantitativo de Diseño no experimental, estudio descriptivo de corte transversal. El estudio estuvo constituida por cinco Unidades Educativas de cuatro cantones: Portoviejo, Santa Ana, 24 de Mayo y Junín de la provincia de Manabí, escogidos al azar, la muestra quedó formada por 711 adolescentes, 383 (53,9%) hombres y 328 (46,2%) mujeres, en edades entre 11 y 16 años (M= 13,16, DT= 1,078) de los grados octavo, noveno y décimo de Educación General Básica de las Unidades Educativas (EGB) del sector público de la comunidad Urbana 424 (59,69%) y Rural 287 (40,4%). Los instrumentos de evaluación utilizados son: Cuestionario sociodemográfico de elaboración propia consta of 46 items; Cuestionario del Uso Problemático de las Nuevas Tecnologías (Labrador, Becoña y Vi