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Lifestyle and work-related correlates of psychosocial health among Australian teachers: a cross-sectional study

AIM: This study examined the psychosocial (psychological distress, job-specific wellbeing, burnout) health of a large sample of teachers in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, specifically the association between psychosocial health, work-related factors, and lifestyle behaviours. SUBJECT & METHOD...

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Autores principales: Corbett, Lucy, Bauman, Adrian, Peralta, Louisa R., Okely, Anthony D., Phongsavan, Philayrath
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10031687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37361285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10389-023-01874-9
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Bauman, Adrian
Peralta, Louisa R.
Okely, Anthony D.
Phongsavan, Philayrath
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description AIM: This study examined the psychosocial (psychological distress, job-specific wellbeing, burnout) health of a large sample of teachers in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, specifically the association between psychosocial health, work-related factors, and lifestyle behaviours. SUBJECT & METHODS: An online survey collected lifestyle behaviours, work-related factors, and socio-demographics from primary and secondary school teachers in NSW from February to October 2021. Associations between work-related factors, lifestyle behaviours, and psychosocial health were modelled using logistic regression in R and adjusted for gender, age, and geographic location. RESULTS: In our sample (n = 1136), 75% were women and 28% of the sample worked in rural or remote areas. Women reported higher levels of psychological distress (51%), compared with men (42%), and over 30% of teachers reported high levels of burnout. Teachers who engaged in three or more positive health-related behaviours had lower odds of psychological distress and burnout as well as higher odds of job-specific wellbeing. Multiple work-related factors such as hours worked, teaching load, teaching experience, teacher type, and teacher role were associated with one or more aspects of psychosocial health after adjusting for socio-demographic variables. CONCLUSION: More is needed to support the psychosocial health of teachers in NSW. Future lifestyle programs for this population should include psychosocial outcomes to further explore the relationship between teachers’ health-related behaviour and their psychosocial health. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10389-023-01874-9.
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spelling pubmed-100316872023-03-22 Lifestyle and work-related correlates of psychosocial health among Australian teachers: a cross-sectional study Corbett, Lucy Bauman, Adrian Peralta, Louisa R. Okely, Anthony D. Phongsavan, Philayrath Z Gesundh Wiss Original Article AIM: This study examined the psychosocial (psychological distress, job-specific wellbeing, burnout) health of a large sample of teachers in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, specifically the association between psychosocial health, work-related factors, and lifestyle behaviours. SUBJECT & METHODS: An online survey collected lifestyle behaviours, work-related factors, and socio-demographics from primary and secondary school teachers in NSW from February to October 2021. Associations between work-related factors, lifestyle behaviours, and psychosocial health were modelled using logistic regression in R and adjusted for gender, age, and geographic location. RESULTS: In our sample (n = 1136), 75% were women and 28% of the sample worked in rural or remote areas. Women reported higher levels of psychological distress (51%), compared with men (42%), and over 30% of teachers reported high levels of burnout. Teachers who engaged in three or more positive health-related behaviours had lower odds of psychological distress and burnout as well as higher odds of job-specific wellbeing. Multiple work-related factors such as hours worked, teaching load, teaching experience, teacher type, and teacher role were associated with one or more aspects of psychosocial health after adjusting for socio-demographic variables. CONCLUSION: More is needed to support the psychosocial health of teachers in NSW. Future lifestyle programs for this population should include psychosocial outcomes to further explore the relationship between teachers’ health-related behaviour and their psychosocial health. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10389-023-01874-9. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10031687/ /pubmed/37361285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10389-023-01874-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title Lifestyle and work-related correlates of psychosocial health among Australian teachers: a cross-sectional study
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title_fullStr Lifestyle and work-related correlates of psychosocial health among Australian teachers: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Lifestyle and work-related correlates of psychosocial health among Australian teachers: a cross-sectional study
title_short Lifestyle and work-related correlates of psychosocial health among Australian teachers: a cross-sectional study
title_sort lifestyle and work-related correlates of psychosocial health among australian teachers: a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10031687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37361285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10389-023-01874-9
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