Descriptive study to assess the effects of burn out on mental health of higher secondary school teachers working in private Schools of loni.

  • Unique Paper ID: 166948
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 3
  • PageNo: 20-23
  • Abstract:
  • Background of study: Burnout as state of chronic stress that leads to physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism, detachment, and feelings of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment." Teachers are usually high achievers who like to work hard and are always looking for ways to improve. These traits are commendable but can mean that educators fall prey to perfectionism and don't leave enough time for rest and recuperation. 34% of them had significant levels of work-related burn out and needed intensive burn out management. 66% showed a burnout associated symptom in their health status of the health workers. 55% showed symptoms and demonstrates that better burn out management reduces the likelihood of experiencing burn out -related health symptoms. 53% of the female population had burnout than male. 72% of the married people had burnout and marginally higher burn out than unmarried people. 31% of these teachers showed bur out and the minimum expected count is 10.98 in Chi Square test 27% of population having 20 to 30 years of work experience that demonstrates a person's more mature approach to burn out management. Objectives: Research study have following objectives 1.To assess the effects of burn out on mental health of health-care teachers working in higher secondary school. 2.To assess the effects of work-related burn out on mental health and mental health related quality of life on mental health care teachers. Methodology: Descriptive study design with cross sectional survey approach to assess the effects of work-related burnout on mental health on 100 Higher secondary school teachers working in private Schools of Loni. Result: Age wise distributions of samples shows that 53% of samples were in the age group of 21years -30 years, 66% of the study participants were male, 59% of samples were married, 68% of samples were undergraduate, 42% of the study participants earn 25000 to 35000 rupees per month 45% of samples had work experience of 01 year to 5 years. 54% of Higher secondary school teachers had Sleep problems, 31% of Higher secondary school teachers had significant fluctuations in vital parameters without biological disturbances. 12% of higher secondary school teachers remain worried without obvious cause and only 3% of Higher secondary school teachers had anorexia. 54% of Higher secondary school teachers had poor overall quality of life and general health, 31% of Higher secondary school teachers complained regarding minor ailments due to burn out which was noted in physical domain. 12% of higher secondary school teachers had psychosomatic problems detected in psychological domain, 12% of higher secondary school teachers agreed that their social life was disturbed which exhibited in social domain of quality of life scale and only 3% of higher secondary school teachers had raised issue regarding dissatisfaction at working environment.

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