Psychological distress among primary school teachers: a comparison with clinical and population samples

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Prescribed medication use among elementary teachers: Prevalence and associated factors

“…Furthermore, educational systems are guided by federal guidelines which are similar across regions, despite adaptations due to local characteristics being common. However, the results should not be extrapolated to the general population, since health related disorders of the teaching profession may not occur in the same magnitude 48 and as a consequence, medication consumption could be different.…”

Training teachers in classroom management to improve mental health in primary school children: the STARS cluster RCT

“…Many teachers commented on the pressures they face, which may contribute to the shockingly high and sustained levels of psychological distress that we detected among teachers in this study; 10% scored above a cut-off point that suggests moderate depression at all four data points. 147 These high levels of stress and distress in the wider school environment may also have served to undermine any positive influence of TCM on self-efficacy, particularly in relation to the classroom management subscale, on which we did detect a statistically significant improvement in our uncontrolled feasibility work. 94 It may also be that our change to the short Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale in an effort to reduce participant burden rendered the measure insensitive, so future studies should consider using the original longer form 148 as we did in our feasibility work.…”

The Incredible Years® Teacher Classroom Management programme and its impact on teachers’ professional self‐efficacy, work‐related stress, and general well‐being: Results from theSTARSrandomized controlled trial

“…Titheradge et al . () demonstrated that a large percentage of teachers who participated in STARS had an EFQ score in the range indicative of moderate depression (EFQ 20 or above) at baseline (29%) and at follow‐up (20%).…”

“…Items are scored from 0 to 4 for items with distress content and from 4 to 0 for items with well‐being content. The EFQ has a maximum score of 40; a higher score indicates higher levels of distress with scores above 19 being indicative of at least moderate levels of clinical depression (Titheradge et al ., ). The mean ( SD ) score for a population‐representative sample of 2,109 professionals was 11.4 ( SD 5.9) (Green, McGinnity, Meltzer, Ford, & Goodman, ).…”

“…The economic impact of poor mental health is not just through lost working days and absenteeism, but also through ‘presenteeism’ (reduced productivity of employees still present at work). Several studies report high rates of psychological distress among teachers at both primary and secondary schools in comparison with the general population (Hinz et al ., ; Kidger et al ., ; Titheradge et al ., ). The Well‐being In Secondary Education (WISE) study, which involved 555 UK secondary school teachers, detected high levels of moderate to severe depression (19.4%); reporting depression was associated with being female, dissatisfaction with work, presenteeism, sickness absence, interpersonal difficulties, and low pupil attendance (Kidger et al ., ).…”