Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brasil.
Rev Paul Pediatr. 2022 May 27;40:e2020420. doi: 10.1590/1984-0462/2022/40/2020420IN. eCollection 2022.
To assess the prevalence of excessive use of social media and associated factors, as well as possible health consequences in high school students in southern Brazil.
This is a population-based cross-sectional study, conducted with high school students in the city of Rio Grande, RS. All students who were attending high school at the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Sul, campus Rio Grande, were eligible for this research in the second semester of 2019. In total, 513 students participated in the study. The dependent variable was excessive use of social media, defined as more than five hours per day. Descriptive and bivariate analyses were carried out and the Poisson regression was used to verify associations, with robust adjustment of variance.
The prevalence of students who reported excessive use of social media was 35.9%. The groups that were most susceptible to excessive use of social media had the following profile: female, black/brown skin, aged between 18 and 20 years old, attending the first year of high school. Excessive use of social media was shown to be associated with smoking, risk of depression, anxiety and stress, high risk of suicide and drug use.
More than a third of students used social media excessively. This behavior was associated with negative health outcomes.
评估社交媒体过度使用的流行率及其相关因素，以及巴西南部高中生可能存在的健康后果。
这是一项基于人群的横断面研究，在南里奥格兰德州里奥格兰德市的高中生中进行。2019 年第二学期，所有在南里奥格兰德州联邦理工学院里奥格兰德校区就读高中的学生都有资格参加这项研究。共有 513 名学生参加了这项研究。因变量是社交媒体过度使用，定义为每天超过五小时。进行了描述性和双变量分析，并使用泊松回归来验证关联，方差进行稳健调整。
报告社交媒体过度使用的学生比例为 35.9%。最容易过度使用社交媒体的群体具有以下特征：女性、黑/棕色皮肤、年龄在 18 至 20 岁之间、就读于高中一年级。过度使用社交媒体与吸烟、抑郁、焦虑和压力风险、自杀风险和药物使用风险有关。
超过三分之一的学生过度使用社交媒体。这种行为与不良健康后果有关。
