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Mental disorders that most affect university teachers: a study in a medical expertise service
Transtornos mentais que mais acometem professores universitários: um estudo em um serviço de perícia médica
Trastornos mentales que más afectan a los docentes universitarios: un estudio en un servicio de pericia médica
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Abstract Objectives: verifying the types of mental disorders that most affect teachers treated in a service of medical expertise. Method: a retrospective study of documental nature with a quantitative approach developed in a Higher Education Institution of João Pessoa city - PB. The sample was composed of 25... view more
Objectives: verifying the types of mental disorders that most affect teachers treated in a service of medical expertise. Method: a retrospective study of documental nature with a quantitative approach developed in a Higher Education Institution of João Pessoa city - PB. The sample was composed of 254 sheets of teachers treated in a service of medical expertise of the institution selected for the study, in the period from January to 1999 to March 2011. Data obtained were analyzed through frequency and percentage. Results: almost all the sample was composed of female teachers, aged between 40 and 49, and depression was responsible for 52% absenteeism of teachers, followed by schizophrenia (12%), bipolar disorder (10%), acute reaction to stress (8%), anxiety (7%), delusional disorder (4%), and others (8%). Conclusion: the mental disorder that most affects the searched teacher category is depression. Therefore, further investigations are needed that can analyze the severity of this problematic pathology in academic area.... view less
Keywords
university teacher; mental disorder; mental health; occupational disease; teacher; Brazil; Latin America; South America
Classification
Medical Sociology
Teachers, Students, Pupils
Psychological Disorders, Mental Health Treatment and Prevention
Occupational Research, Occupational Sociology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 119-125
Journal
Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 7 (2015) Supl.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.9789/2175-5361.2015.v7i5.119-125
ISSN
2175-5361
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed