Levels of anxiety and depression among early childhood education and primary education teachers

Ferreira-Costa, Rodney Querino; Pedro-Silva, Nelson

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Article • Pro-Posições 30 • 2019 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-6248-2016-0143 copy

Levels of anxiety and depression among early childhood education and primary education teachers¹ 2 English version: Deirdre Giraldo - deegiraldo@gmail.com.

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Teaching nowadays has become a profession, which leads to illness. Taking this aspect into consideration, the aim of this article is to verify teachers’ levels of anxiety and depression and their possible association to the level of satisfaction at work and factual data such as age, educational level and religiousness. To do so, 150 professionals teachers, who taught Public Early Years Education and Primary Education levels in a school in the state of São Paulo, were given a questionnaire, based on the Beck Scales (depression and anxiety) on the factual data and work satisfaction and it could be seen that 50% of the subjects presented levels of anxiety and/or depression which were harmful to the educational act. Thus it was possible to conclude that it is necessary to promote educational policies that take teachers’ mental health into account.

Keywords
Mental health; teachers; anxiety; depression

Answers	Results (n=105)
Answers	Anxiety	Depression
Minimum	58.1% (n=61)	69.5% (n=73)
Mild	24.8% (n=26)	22.9% (n=24)
Moderate	11.4% (n=12)	7.6% (n=8)
Severe	5.7% (n=6)	-

Answers	Results (n =105)
Presenting no illness	50.5% (n=53)
Presenting Illness (mild, moderate and severe levels)	49.5% (n=52)

Aspects	Positive Vision (Very Satisfied/Satisfied)		Negative View (Not very satisfied /Dissatisfied)		χ ² (p=value)
Aspects	Presenting no illness	Presenting illness	Presenting no illness	Presenting illness	χ ² (p=value)
Structure of the room	50.0% (n=26)	43.8% (n=24)	50.0% (n=27)	54.2% (n=27)	0.9940
Structure of the room
Materials	42.3% (n=23)	37.5% (n=19)	55.8% (n=29)	60.4% (n=32)	0.6032
Dialogue with administrators	82.7 %	72.9% (n=37)	15.4%	25.0% (n=14)	0.2100
Dialogue with administrators	(n=44)		(n=8)
Relationship between teachers	84.6% (n=45)	75.0% (n=37)	15.4%	22.9% (n=14)	0.1928
			(n=8)

Student interest	50.0% (n=27)	40.4% (n=19)	50.0% (n=26)	59.6% (n=32)	0.2272
Student interest
Respect from Student	57.7% (n=31)	45.8% (n=23)	42.3% (n=22)	52.1% (n=28)	0.2419
Respect from Student
Parent interest	28.8%	18.8%	69.2% (n=37)	79.2%	0.2665
Parent interest	(n=15)	(n=9)		(n=42)
Respect from Parents	57.7%	50.0% (n=25)	40.4% (n=21)	43.8%	0.5040
Respect from Parents	(n=31)			(n=24)
Salary	19.2%	8.3%	80.8% (n=42)	91.7% (n=48)	0.1024
Salary	(n=11)	(n=4)
Job Satisfaction	90.4%	72.9%	9.6%	27.1%	0.0224
Job Satisfaction	(n=48)	(n=37)	(n=5)	(n=17)

	Up to 35 (n=20)	36-40 (n=23)	41-45 (n=21)	46+ (n=40)
Presenting no illness	55.0% (n=11)	56.5% (n=13)	28.6% (n=6)	55% (n=22)
Presenting illness (mild, moderate and severe levels)	45.0% (n=9)	43.5% (n=10)	71.4% (n=15)	45% (n=18)
χ² (p = value)	0.7511	0.679	0.0405	0.5244

	Catholic (n=92)	Evangelical Christian (n=6)	Spiritist (n=4)	No religion (n=3)
Presenting no illness	51,1%	66.7%	50%	0%
	(n=47)	(n=4)	(n=2)	(n=0)
Presenting illness (mild, moderate and severe levels)	48.9%	33.3%	50%	100%
Presenting illness (mild, moderate and severe levels)	(n=45)	(n=2)	(n=2)	(n=3)
χ ² (p = value)	1	0.4525	0.9502	0.0764

	Pedagogy (n=64)	Normal Superior School (n=21)	Teacher Licensing (n=17)	Others (n=3)
Present no illness	57.8%	28.6%	47.1%	66.7%
	(n=37)	(n=6)	(n=8)	(n=2)
Present illness (mild, moderate and severe levels)	42.2%	71.4%	52.9%	33.3%
Present illness (mild, moderate and severe levels)	(n=27)	(n=15)	(n=9)	(n=1)
χ² (p = value)	0.4086	0.0296	0.7654

	Single (n=22)	Married (n=61)	Divorced (n=17)	Widow (n=5)
Present no illnesses	50%	54.1%	47.1%	20%
	(n=11)	(n=33)	(n=8)	(n=1)
Present illnesses (light, moderate and severe levels)	50%	45.9%	52.9%	80%
Present illnesses (light, moderate and severe levels)	(n=11)	(n=28)	(n=9)	(n=4)
χ² (p = value)	0.9270	0.6846	0.6972	0.1634

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Levels of anxiety and depression among early childhood education and primary education teachers1 2 English version: Deirdre Giraldo - deegiraldo@gmail.com.

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Levels of anxiety and depression among early childhood education and primary education teachers¹ 2 English version: Deirdre Giraldo - deegiraldo@gmail.com.