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Psicologia

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BORRALHO, Liberata; DE JESUS, Saúl Neves; VISEU, João  and  CANDEIAS, Adelinda. Health assessment of portuguese teachers: The Teacher’s Health Questionnaire. Psicologia [online]. 2020, vol.34, n.1, pp.195-213. ISSN 0874-2049.  https://doi.org/10.17575/psicologia.v34i1.1475.

In the last decades we have witnessed a deterioration of teacher’s health, which affected teachers and the school as an organization. This study aimed to evaluate the health of Portuguese teachers through the “Teacher’s Health Questionnaire”, in a sample of 5009 teachers. The results of the factor analysis supported a five-factor structure (professional well-being, exhaustion, cognitive disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, and voice alterations), with good fit indexes that supported the quality of the model with five-correlated factors (model 2). The results indicate that more than half of teachers have health problems. Those from public education, 1st cycle, feminine gender, with more than 50 years and 21 or more years of service are those that present less well-being and more health loss. Cluster analysis provided a solution of three groups: high, medium, and low health. The results and their individual and organizational implications are discussed, as well as guidelines for future research.

Keywords : Teacher’s health; occupational health; work risks; professional well-being.

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