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Objective: to identify the relationship between the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and anxiety, alcohol and tobacco consumption in high school adolescents from Puebla, Mexico. Method: descriptive correlational study, carried out with 301 adolescents from a public school in 2018. The New Addictions Detection Questionnaire and Hamilton Anxiety Scale were applied. For statistical analysis, the Kolmogorov Smirnov coefficient and Mann Whitney U, Spearman correlation and multiple linear regression. Results: the mean use of ICTs was 84.36 (SD = 15.1). Internet (M = 16.72, SD = 4.6) and cell phones (M = 15.52, SD = 5.0) were the most used. The use of ICTs and anxiety were statistically significant (F=21.719, p=.001), where the Internet and television predicted anxiety. About the use of ICTs and alcohol consumption (F = 3.745, p =.001) indicates that what this condition predicts is the use of cell phones. In the case of ICTs with tobacco use, there was no statistical significance. Conclusion: there is a relationship with the use of ICTs, anxiety and alcohol consumption in high school students in the state of Puebla. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to compare the risk factors, the stages of acquisition and the consumption of alcohol and tobacco as the relationship that exists between the risk factors and the consumption of alcohol and tobacco, in high school students of urban complements of the north and south of Nuevo Leon, Mexico Method: comparative, correlational study, cluster sampling and a sample of 374 in the period from 2016 to 2017. POSIT and EASJ were used as instruments and for the analysis the chi-square test, Friedman, Kruskal Wallis H, Spearman correlation and a regression model. Results: 31.6% of adolescents were in the stage of maintenance of alcohol consumption and 63.6% in the stage of precontemplation of tobacco consumption. The school risk factors (H = 15.19, p = .004) and individual risk factors (H = 22.0, p = .001) have more presence in the preparation stage (= 62.74; Mdn = 64.70) and maintenance of alcohol consumption (= 50.45; Mdn = 51.35). In tobacco use, individual risk factors in the preparation phase and family risk factors in maintenance stand out (p<.001). There is a relationship between risk factors and alcohol consumption (rs = .376, p< .001) and tobacco (rs = .345, p < .001). Conclusion: risk factors intervene in traffic through the stages of acquisition of licit drug use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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