Influencia de las redes sociales en la conducta alimentaria en adolescentes mujeres de 15 a 17 años de la Unidad Educativa Liceo Naval Guayaquil, durante el periodo lectivo 2023 – 2024.

Abstract

The massive use of social networks has created that people use these tools for all areas of their lives, being able to have a positive or negative impact, in the case of eating behavior decision-making in adolescents in relation to their intake, either by the type of content consumed or exposed unintentionally could be influenced at both poles. The present research aimed to establish the influence of social networks on eating behavior in adolescent women between 15 and 17 years of age of the Liceo Naval Guayaquil Educational Unit. A descriptive design of correlational type was applied with a quantitative approach and a cross-sectional cut, where the variables were related in conjunction with the population studied, a population composed of 110 female adolescents who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The respective analysis and correlation was carried out using Pearson's Chi square test using the SPSS application. Finally, the results obtained were that there is an influence of social networks for the consumption of foods such as snacks and pastry, where P = <0.05 for validation, with respect to the other food groups there was no influence, however, a deficient intake of the groups was observed such as: dairy, vegetables, fruits, cereals and oils. In addition, the interaction with food-related content was frequently represented by 46.36% and the daily duration by 31.82% of the surveyed population.