Abstract

CARLOTTO, Mary Sandra  and  GONCALVES CAMARA, Sheila. Prevalence and risk factors of common mental disorders among teachers. Rev. psicol. trab. organ. [online]. 2015, vol.31, n.3, pp.201-206. ISSN 2174-0534.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rpto.2015.04.003.

This study aimed at identifying the prevalence of Common Mental Disorders (CMDs) in teachers and at analyzing associations between sociodemographic, occupational, and psychosocial factors and CMDs. This was a cross-sectional study with a random sample of 679 teachers, distributed in 37 elementary schools located in a city in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre (in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). The instruments used were the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20); the Battery of Psychosocial Risk Assessment to evaluate role ambiguity, social support, self-efficacy, autonomy, interpersonal conflicts, role conflict, and overload; and a questionnaire to assess sociodemographic and occupational variables. Results showed a 29.7% prevalence of CMDs. Three-stage hierarchical logistic regression was performed. Having role ambiguity, overload, low level of social support, and low perceived self-efficacy were associated with CMDs. Greater attention should be given to psychosocial threats in the school context, since these kinds of variables were associated with CMDs in teachers.

Keywords : Common mental disorders; School teachers; Occupational health.

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