Social Support and Public Health of Female Teachers

Abstract

Mental disorders are one of the major concerns in the world today, which causes a decrease in the productivity of the education system. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between social support and general health of female teachers working in the schools of Quds city. This research is a cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study. The sample size was 131 people and the sampling was done by random method. In order to collect information, Goldberg's standard public health questionnaires and Phillipis' social support ANOVA correlation coefficient were used. The collected data were analyzed with Pearson's statistical test. In this way, the relationship between social support and physical symptoms, anxiety, social functioning, depression and general health was investigated using Pearson's correlation coefficient test. The results showed that there is a statistically significant and inverse difference between social support and the average anxiety score d. Also, among the different subscales of public health, including physical symptoms, anxiety, social functioning, depression, there is only a statistically significant relationship between anxiety and social support, so that with the increase in the level of social support, the level of anxiety increases. It decreases among teachers. Therefore, it seems that the state of mental health of the country's teachers can be improved by using appropriate educational and intervention approaches, attracting the participation of relevant authorities and organizations.