Excessive use and abuse of mobile devices in medical students.

Abstract

The excessive use of electronic devices causes damage to the physical and intellectual health of students from an early age, and due to dependency, they live immersed in a virtual world in which social networks and other internet tools take priority in the daily activities of students. themselves. The study is descriptive, cross-sectional and inductive, and the material corresponds to 2 instruments applied to 118 students of the Faculty of Public Health of the Higher Polytechnic School of Chimborazo. The sample is made up of 59 men and 59 women, and 65% of the male population presents discomfort from dry eye syndrome; on the other hand, 34.40% of the female population begins to present symptoms of neck syndrome.